A 'moon landing moment': The new cancer drug therapy that could change medical thinking
It's being hailed as a cancer breakthrough so monumental, the lead scientist is describing it as a “moon landing moment”.
And it's not just any scientist, but Professor Georgina Long - the Australian oncologist already credited with boosting the survival rate of advanced melanoma from 5 to 50 per cent.
In a world first, a stage three clinical trial led by Long has shown success in using a personalised therapeutic vaccine to dramatically cut the risk of melanoma recurrence and death, after a tumour is removed.
Today, Professor Georgina Long, medical director of Melanoma Institute…
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