On the next Great Conversations, airing Monday, Feb. 25 at 9/8 pm, Charles Graeber, best-selling author of The Good Nurse, talks about his new book, The Breakthrough: Immuno-therapy and the Race to Cure Cancer. He is interviewed by Dr. Thomas Gajewski, professor of medicine and pathology at the University of Chicago.

Graeber’s book details one of medicine’s most confounding mysteries: Why doesn’t our immune system recognize and fight cancer the way it does other diseases and viruses, like the common cold?

The answer might lie in a series of tricks that cancer has developed to “turn off” normal immune responses – tricks that scientists have only recently discovered and learned to defeat.

In his new book, Graeber examines this medical breakthrough, described by many as cancer’s “penicillin moment,” and explains why immunotherapy may be the turning point in our understanding of cancer and how to beat it.

Great Conversations “Charles Graeber and Dr. Thomas Gajewski” is a KET production. Producer-director is Gary Pahler, and executive producer is Teresa Day. Great Conversations is recorded at the University of Louisville Kentucky Author Forum, which is produced by Mary Moss Greenebaum and sponsored by the University of Louisville, in partnership with Brown-Forman, The Humana Foundation and the James Graham Brown Foundation.

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