Scientists from the US and Japan, James Ellison and Tasuku Honjo made a real breakthrough in the fight against cancer and in 2018 received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his "discovery of cancer therapy by inhibiting negative immune regulation."
Specialists quickly became apparent: this development is revolutionary and will save thousands of lives.
Recall: currently cancers - the second most common (after cardiovascular diseases) cause of death of Russian citizens. In other CIS countries, according to the statistics of the Russian Federation, terrible disease kills at least 300 000 lives each year. And the picture is not the best in the world. That's why cancer deserves its second name - "the plague of the XXI century."
One of the main methods onkolecheniya today is chemotherapy - a very painful and weak way to help. Doctors call it a "nuclear attack" on the human body. After all, as a result of the tumor site die, as well as slowing down the development of healthy cells. Survive such an attack is almost as difficult as without it. That's the paradox.
Professor James Ellison and his Japanese counterpart Tasuku Honjo really made a breakthrough in the treatment of cancer, for which he deservedly received the "Nobel Prize" in the field of medicine.
"People sometimes say they have recovered from the disease and become healthy thanks to my method of treatment, and that they owe me. This leads one to believe that our research truly significant. And that makes me happy " - he admitted in an interview Tasuku Honjo.
What is the essence of innovative discoveries? Neither more nor less, it helps the body to fight the independence of man with a terrible disease. Including quite hopeless cases.
Patient first experimental scientists Nobel laureates was unknown woman with end-stage cancer, which doctors treating diverted maximum of six months of life. And since then, 16 years have passed, and that the patient is still alive and feeling better. Their longevity is the invention bound and Jimmy Carter - 39 US president, according to which way to get rid of melanoma.
But, generally, the first such study opportunities in the field of immunity did not start today, but a century ago. And by the way, "The theory of infectious immunity" created a Russian scientist Ilya Mechnikov, for which in 1908 was also awarded the Nobel Prize.
Opening the same of our contemporaries - it is a great chance to get rid of cancer patients from the painful-destroying chemotherapy treatments. This is a chance to live for thousands and thousands of patients, no more, no less.
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