Leonard Lopate Weekend: Fighting Cancer, David Duchovny & The Teenage Brain

This week: As part of WNYC's Living Cancer series we spoke with Dr. Jedd Wolchok of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and senior staff writer at Salon Mary Elizabeth Williams about immunotherapy, a method of treating cancer which harnessing the body’s own immune system (first). Then, David Duchovny on his first novel, Holy Cow: A Modern-Day Dairy Tale. It's about a happy cow whose innocence is shattered when she learns about industrial meat farms (32:45). Plus, neurologist Frances E. Jensen looks at the science of the adolescent brain and provides practical advice for both parents and teenagers (49:50)

Inhibitory Cells Can Stop Signaling
 Dr. Jedd Wolchok and Mary Elizabeth Williams at the Cancer Research Institute