The Mugshot of Cancer | Joshua LaBaer | TEDxASU

Find out about why there is so much excitement about this new therapy, which patients are the best candidates, as well as CAR T-cell effectiveness, safety, and costs.

Anokhi Jambusaria, M.D., dermatologist at Mayo Clinic in Florida talks about skin cancer.

Traditionally, cancer treatment has revolved around chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. But thanks to groundbreaking immune checkpoint blockade research led by Jim Allison, Ph.D., winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, we have a new way to treat cancer: immunotherapy. Rather than treating the cancer directly, immunotherapy trains the immune system to attack cancer.