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Topic: Immunotherapy

3D rendered image, enhanced scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of cancer cells. (Getty Images/koto_feja)

"Curing" cancer is an outdated idea

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Tobias Menzies and Sophie Okonedo in "Modern Love" (Christopher Saunders/Amazon)

"Modern Love" got my cancer story wrong

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Alex Trebek poses in the press room at the 46th annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Center on Sunday, May 5, 2019, in Pasadena, Calif. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Alex Trebek: "Why should I be afraid?"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Jim Allison playing the harmonica (Uncommon Productions)

"You can do science and have fun"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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Food allergies are a grownup problem now

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Dr. James P. Allison (AP/Richard Drew)

I was the new Nobel winner's lab rat

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bowler (Franklin Golden/Random House)

Everything doesn't "happen for a reason"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Joe Biden (AP/Diego Corredor)

Joe Biden's "Cancer Moonshot"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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My “rapidly fatal” diagnosis

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Reuters/Joshua Roberts)

Carter's cancer lifesaver

Mary Elizabeth Williams
A scientist separates blood cells from plasma cells to isolate any Ebola RNA in order to test for the virus. (Reuters/Misha Hussain)

A "secret serum" that works?

Mary Elizabeth Williams

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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The author (second from right), surrounded by her doctors

These doctors saved me

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Emma Whitehead

Cancer's game-changer

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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