"Could Vaccines Be the Cure for Cancer?"
A year ago, Sergei German got terrible news: He had cancer, and it was incurable. Today, he is cancer-free thanks to a clinical trial at the Tisch Cancer Institute at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The tumors throughout his body literally melted away after treatment with an experimental vaccine. It's called immunotherapy: harnessing the immune system to attack cancer. The idea has been around for a long time, but now — for the first time — researchers are making it work. “There used to be believers and non-believers,” said Joshua Brody, MD, director of the lymphoma immunotherapy program at the Tisch Cancer Institute of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and German’s doctor. “There is only one school of thought now. We have clear evidence that the immune system can get rid of cancer.” Learn more.