What Are Cancers? Cancer Immunology with Prof. Dr. William Murphy Dr. William J. Murphy is a scientist with extensive experience with immune and the cancer system interactions. Dr. Murphy has graciously offered to help us understand cancer immunology. In the session today we will address as many of the following points as possible: What is cancer? Basic tumor biology and misconceptions Causes of cancer, changing demographics Different cancer types and outcomes Invasion and metastasis Factors affecting incidence and progression (and outcome) How diagnose and treat (past and present)- factors affecting decisions How do we study cancer in the research laboratory? Limitations Immunology of cancer Brief bio of Dr. Murphy: My research for the past 30 years has centered on translational studies involving modeling cancer-immune system interactions starting with my earlier studies on NK cells and HSCT in mouse models and later at the National Cancer Institute on their role in cancer immunotherapy which then expanded to issues in immunotherapy in general.