‘Scarily like a cure’: the decade that revolutionised our fight with cancer

Source: The Age, February 2020

Scientists are always cautious about giving false hope, and at the turn of the decade, many cancer researchers had given up hope of a true cure.

But then, to the surprise of almost everyone, a stream of research that was long overlooked radically transformed cancer treatment.

These new treatments rely on cloning and genetic editing, treatments that retain a whiff of sci-fi even as they become established lifesavers. They are known as immunotherapy.