Expert feature: harnessing the immune system to treat cancer

Today's expert is Ian Hermans. Ian is the head of Cancer Immunology at the Malaghan Institute -  which is an independent biomedical research institute.

He tells us about cancer and cancer research from the immunology perspective.

Professor Ian Hermans is the head of Cancer Immunology at the Malaghan Institute.

T cell latching on to a cancer cell to kill it. Malaghan Institute

A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of a cancer cell. AFP