He was diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest of skin cancers. He also mentioned in his first cancer blog entry that he had a malignant melanoma cancer removed

He was diagnosed with melanoma, the deadliest of skin cancers. He also mentioned in his first cancer blog entry that he had a malignant melanoma cancer removed two decades ago. Immunotherapy came from left field as a cancer therapy - and for stage 4 cancers, the 4/5-year survival rate is much better than control groups - about 50%. Jim Allison and Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel prize in medicine for their work in cancer immunotherapy. There's an interesting documentary on Jim Allison's work - see https://www.breakthroughdoc.com/ https://www.breakthroughdoc.com/ (for USA PBS viewers: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/jim-allison-breakthrough/ https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/jim-allison-breakt..., for TVOntario viewers: https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/jim-allison-breakthrough https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/jim-allison-breakthr...)