MEDICINE PRIZE2018
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Since 1901
“…the person who shall have made the most important discovery within the domain of physiology or medicine.”
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Who is rewarded with the medicine prize?
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People who have eithermade a discovery about howorganisms work or havehelped find a cure for a disease.
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Medicine Prize2018
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Treatment of cancer by releasing the brakes in our immune system.
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The Nobel Laureates“for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation”
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Cancer cells divide uncontrollably and form tumours.
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Cancer
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Methods of cancer therapy
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This year’s Laureates discovered and developed a new method for curing cancer.
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The immune system
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The immune system protectsus against infections. It consists of various kinds ofcells and molecules, includingso-called T cells. One funda-mental property of the immune system is that it cantell the difference betweenthe body's own cells and foreign cells, so that virusesand bacteria can be identified and destroyed, for example.
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James P. Allison’s discovery
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In 1994 the first experiments were made using antibodies on mice with cancer, and they were cured.
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Tasuku Honjo’sdiscovery
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In 2012, a clinical study showed very good results in treatment of several different types of cancer.
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The benefit
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More cases of cancer can be cured.
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