Human Subjects

摘要

Last October, the Nobel Committee announced that it would award him a prize In medicine, unaware that he had died three days earlier. The Canadian biologist had been experimenting with triggering the immune system's dendritic cells to treat cancer when, in 2007, he was diagnosed with pancreatic adenocarcinoma and given less than a year to live. He tried several previously untested treatments on himself and survived for four and a half years.