Jim Allison: Breakthrough

2019 • 90 minutes

About this movie

Today, Jim Allison is a name to be reckoned with throughout the scientific world, holding a 2018 Nobel Prize for discovering the immune system's role in defeating cancer. But for decades he waged a lonely war against the skepticism of the medical establishment and the resistance of Big Pharma. This is the astounding true story of one warm-hearted, stubborn man's visionary quest to find a cure for cancer.

Ratings and reviews

My husband is the first person to be treated with immunotherapy for melanoma that has matastisized to the liver at MD Anderson. The documentary gave me hope.