Personalized medicine comes to cancer immunotherapy

Peter Attia · 24 Oct 2026

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Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies have been the greatest advance in cancer medicine this century.

Their wordsICI therapies have been the greatest advance in cancer medicine this century.
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Cancers differ too much from one another for any single therapy to work against all of them.

Their wordsCancers are simply too different for any single therapy to work everywhere.
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The more mutations a cancer has, the more opportunities the immune system may have to recognize and attack it.

Their wordsthe more mutations a cancer has, the more opportunities the immune system may have to recognize and attack it.

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