Increasingly, the great new medical technologies aren’t coming from the pharmaceutical behemoths, but from scrappy little biotech upstarts. In few instances is this truer than in the field of cancer immunotherapy.

Immunotherapy is defined as a “treatment designed to produce immunity to disease or enhance the resistance of the immune system to an active disease process, as cancer.” Simply put, cancer immunotherapy activates the body’s powerful and complex immune system so that it can do its job better.

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