Thanks for your reply, Kim and interesting to read your thoughts. And of course we all look to the day when everyone who has cancer will survive the disease.

Nick Peel from Cancer Research UK echoes yours thoughts and published a really detailed blog post, which you can read here. Below is an extract:

"Immunotherapy will play a huge part in cancer treatment in the future. That’s something we know for sure.

But whether it will come in the form of drugs that release the ‘brakes’ on the immune system, cell therapies like those in the news today, or something completely new, working out exactly how it will be used, and in which patients, is an urgent challenge for researchers,

What we do know is that it will need to find a place among other, successful treatments that are already available. And today’s reports are a great example of this – offering a way to treat patients for whom current approaches don’t work. So we’re eagerly awaiting the full publication of the US team’s findings.

But we also need to focus on immunotherapies that target other cancers in desperate need of new treatments.

Hopefully then, with larger, longer-term studies, we will be able to talk about immunotherapy truly offering lasting cures for patients with cancer."

Best wishes,

Kirsty