Cancer Research

How Your Immune System Can Prevent and Cure Cancer With Dr. Alex Marson

Dr. Alex Marson, a leading immunologist at UCSF, explores how the immune system can prevent, treat, and cure cancer. He discusses everyday choices that influence cancer risk, including surprising factors beyond diet and exercise. The conversation covers cutting-edge immunotherapies like CAR T-cell therapy and CRISPR gene editing, which are showing remarkable success against childhood and adult cancers. Marson explains how engineered immune cells can be programmed to target specific cancers and discusses the ethics of gene editing in embryos and adults. He also addresses practical immune system optimization through sleep, diet, and childhood exposures that prevent allergies and autoimmune reactions.