Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Mar 2026
The end of cancer: how cell therapy breakthroughs have us on the edge of a cure
15 March 2026 - How rapid immunotherapy advancements could relegate killer cancers to the status of a ‘chronic disease’.
Two years after Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon, US president Richard Nixon declared a new frontier in American scientific conquest. The target was one of humankind’s biggest killers: cancer. “The same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom, and took man to the Moon, should be turned toward conquering this dread disease,” Nixon declared on December 23, 1971 as he signed the US’s inaugural National Cancer Act. The aim was unequivocal – nothing short of a cure across the gamut of cancers.
