James Allison of US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan win the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize

James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan have won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize [Courtesy]

Two immunologists, James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan, won the 2018 Nobel Medicine Prize for research that has revolutionised the treatment of cancer, the jury said on Monday.

The pair were honoured "for their discovery of cancer therapy by inhibition of negative immune regulation," the Nobel Assembly said.