The 2018 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to two scientists who found out how to battle cancer by using the body’s immune system.
Professor James P Allison, from the United States, and Professor Tasuku Honjo, from Japan, have focused their work on treatments for “advanced, deadly skin cancer,” the BBC reports.
The prize-giving Swedish academy praised their work, saying that immune checkpoint therapy has revolutionized the cancer research and treatment sector. According to experts, the pioneering method is “strikingly effective.”
Immune checkpoint theory, which uses the body’s immune system to attack cancer cells, is a “landmark in our fight against cancer,” the committee said. As per CNN, they also added that Professor Allison and Professor Honjo’s work had “revolutionized cancer treatment and has fundamentally changed the way we view how cancer can be managed.”
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