Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to two researchers for key cancer discovery - STAT

Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to two researchers for key cancer discovery - STAT

Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to two cancer researchers for immune system breakthrough

By SHARON BEGLEY

FREDRIK SANDBERG/TT VIA AP

It was a rare award for a key cancer breakthrough, in this case the discovery that the immune system can be tweaked to unleash tumor-attacking T cells.

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