William Coley, a New York physician in the late 1800s, studied spontaneous remissions of terminal cancer cases. He read that one man, who had an inoperable neck tumor, had gone into remission after what event?

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William Coley discovered that the man's tumor went into spontaneous remission after he developed a streptococcal infection beneath his skin, suggesting an immune system response was responsible for the remission. This led Coley to develop his famous "Coley's toxins" immunotherapy using bacteria to stimulate the immune system to fight cancer.

William Coley, a New York Physician in the Late 1800s