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

888.871 - 924.091 James P. Allison

The next therapy that came along was radiation. The Curies around the end of the 19th century, beginning of the 20th century, Madame Curie in particular, developed radiotherapy. That was quite useful and curative in some cases. Of course, it also caused cancer. People learned about spinogenic effects, but the idea was you blast a cell and give it enough mutations that it can't live.