American James Allison and Japan's Tasuku Honjo have won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine for a pioneering new approach to cancer treatment.

The Nobel committee said the pair's research, which harnesses the body's immune system to attack cancer cells, amounted to a “landmark in our fight against cancer.”

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