Coley's Toxins: Curing Cancer

Here is your thought bomb for the day:

A patient named Zola had a huge tumor on his neck. Coley treated Zola with bacteria that caused him to become violently ill. Within hours the tumor began to dissolve. He recovered completely.

Isabel Seliger for NPR

Training The Immune System To Fight Cancer Has 19th-Century Roots: Coley speculated that the strep infection had reversed the cancer.

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