303 | James P. Allison on Fighting Cancer with the Immune System

3285.107 - 3307.672 James P. Allison

Is it being tested? No, it's all over the world. There are millions of people, literally, that have been treated. In fact, in melanoma now, immunotherapy is pretty much the standard of care. It's the first thing you'll get because it's so effective. The drug that we developed in the late 90s, ipilimumab, that was approved by the FDA in 2011, that's given all over the world.