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71. What Do COVID-19 and Cancer Have in Common?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Vital Proteins for Everybody With a Body

There's a new field in the last decade looking at vaccines for primary prevention of cancer. Immune checkpoint inhibitors are drugs that work by overriding those checkpoints, allowing the immune system to see the cancer cells for what they are. CAR T cells is an approach where you can take a killer T cell and engineer it to be a super killer. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

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