Characterizing Cancer: How Steven N. Fiering Approaches Cancer Therapy Treatment

The challenge of fighting cancer lies in both stimulating and suppressing the immune system. That's why researcher Steven Fiering approaches immunotherapy cancer treatment by analyzing the signals and behaviors cancer cells initiate. Listen and learn

1. What's significant about the classic study of cancer and genetic change regarding contact inhibition,
2. How cancer tends to get more genetically unstable as it progresses,
3. Why the origin of cancer lies in stem cells rather than differentiated cells and what that means for immune cancer therapy, and
4. How he sees cancer's effect as that of a sterile wound and how efforts by the immune system to fight cancer reflect that.