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

969.093 - 1001.358 James P. Allison

They cause a lot more mutations. They screw up the DNA as it's dividing and make it so that the cell can't successfully divide without making it. Unfortunately, you could also put in a lot of mutations that will make it more likely to get a cancer down the road. But the bottom line is, with both of those, both radiotherapy and chemotherapy as given, unless you kill every last tumor cell,

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