Nobel Prize Medicine for cancer therapies

stockholm - This year, the Nobel Prize in Medicine will go to two medical researchers who have developed anti-cancer therapies. It is the American James Allison and the Japanese Tasuku Honjo. The two have reached a milestone in the fight against cancer, as announced by the Nobel jury in Stockholm. They have developed therapies that can better treat cancer through the immune system.

The prize includes a sum of money of 870,000 euros. Since 1901, 214 people have had this Nobel Prize. The Nobel Prizes are now being awarded for a week. Next Monday, the Swedish central bank will be the last to award the Nobel Prize for Economics. On Friday it will be known who or what will receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

The exception is the Nobel Prize for Literature, which is being scrapped this year due to a scandal in the jury. To compensate, two literature prices will be awarded in 2019.