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Systemic Immnotherapy

Immunotherapy is a treatment that uses a person's own immune system to fight cancer.

Immunotherapy can boost or change the way the immune system works so that it can find and attack cancer cells.

Immunotherapy is administered through drugs (which can be produced by the body or in a laboratory) that help improve immune system function.

How immunotherapy is used to treat cancer

By stimulating or boosting the body's natural defenses so it can seek out and attack cancer cells with more vigor or greater efficiency

  • By making substances in the laboratory that are similar to immune system components and using them to help restore or improve the way the immune system finds and attacks cancer cells
  • In recent decades, immunotherapy has become an important part of the treatment of some types of cancer.

New immunotherapy treatments are being tested and approved, and new ways of working with the immune system are being discovered at a very rapid pace.

Immunotherapy works better for some types of cancer than others.

It is used alone to treat some of these types of cancer, but for others, it seems to work better when used with other types of treatment.

Types of immunotherapy against cancer

There are several main types of immunotherapy to treat cancer, and many others are under study.

  • Immune checkpoint inhibitors: these drugs remove the brakes from the immune system, helping it to identify and attack cancer cells.
  • Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) cell therapy: this therapy takes some T cells from a patient's blood, mixes them with a special virus that teaches the T cells to attach to tumor cells, and then returns the cells to the patient so they can find the cancer, bind to it, and destroy it.
  • Cytokines: this treatment uses cytokines (small proteins that carry messages between cells) to stimulate immune cells to attack cancer.
  • Immunomodulators: this group of drugs generally stimulates parts of the immune system to treat certain types of cancer.
  • Cancer vaccines: vaccines are substances that are injected into the body to trigger an immune response against certain diseases.
  • Monoclonal antibodies (mABs or Moabs): these are immune system proteins artificially manufactured in the laboratory.
  • Oncolytic viruses: this treatment uses viruses that have been modified in a laboratory to infect and kill certain tumor cells.

Strengthening the immune system to fight cancer

Immunotherapy harnesses the body’s natural strength to fight cancer, allowing the immune system to defeat more types of cancer and save more lives.

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