Carrying the torch & facing new challenges

Excerpt

More than 60 years ago, while the field of cancer immunology was in its advent searching for a novel therapy for cancer, Dr. Georges Mathé, the founding editor of Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy (CIIM), performed the world´s first successful allogeneic bone marrow transplant (1958), which he considered to be a form of cancer therapy and sparked a light in the dark for researchers. Years later in 1972, he lit the torch in the form of a specialist journal of CIIM, a title that perfectly reflected his foresight for the potential impact of immunotherapy in cancer treatment now widely accepted and practiced 40 years later. …