The big question: Will cancer immune therapy work for me?
(WorldNews Health)

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Dennis Lyon was a genetic train wreck. Cancer was ravaging his liver, lungs, bones and brain, and tests showed so many tumor mutations that drugs targeting one or two wouldn't do much good. It seemed like very bad news, yet his doctors were encouraged. The reason: People with the most messed-up genes often are the ones who do best on treatments that enlist the immune system. `These are the patients we used to be very depressed about,` thinking they couldn't be helped, said Dr. Razelle Kurzrock at the University of California, San Diego. `Now when we see those types of patients, we're really excited,` because there are so many ways for the immune system to...