Immunotherapy is modern science that uses our immune system to fight cancer. It works by helping the immune system recognise and attack cancer cells. It is a major breakthrough in the field of science and modern medicine in treating cancer. For a very long time, we have been treating cancer by either burning it through radiation, cutting or removing it by surgery or poisoning the cancer cells with chemotherapy. This has resulted in lesser cures and numerous, unwanted side effects. So now, there’s a new and different approach to treat cancer- one that acts on the patient’s immune system, instead of cancer.
Immunotherapy leads the way forward to finding better cures as well as reducing the adverse effects. Immunotherapy is a more personalised and tailor-made approach to cancer, as opposed to treating cancer by a “one-size-fits-all” approach. It also happens to be a more targeted treatment, bringing minimal to no collateral damage to the body.
Immunotherapy is an umbrella term that encompasses different modalities to boost the immune system to fight cancer. Some of these are also called Biological therapy or Targeted therapy.
The different types of immunotherapies are such as:
- Monoclonal antibodies (MABs) recognise and attack certain proteins on the surface of cancer cells
- Vaccines help the immune system to recognise and attack cancer.
- Cytokines are a group of proteins, naturally found in the body. They help to boost the immune system.
- CAR T-cell therapy (also called adoptive cell transfer) to change the genes in a person’s white blood cells
- Checkpoint inhibitors are a type of immunotherapy that block different checkpoint proteins.
Did you know-Immunotherapy is a treatment that can be made in a lab?
Yes, we can make cells/ substances in the lab, just like immune cells/components, and use them to HELP our immune system fight cancer cells.
- This is done by making substances in a lab that are just like immune system components and using them to help restore or improve how your immune system works to find and attack cancer cells
- The other way is to modify or train cells to become cancer-fighting cells. These cells when given back to the body jumpstart the process of killing cancer
Immunotherapy is modern science that uses our immune system to fight cancer. It works by helping the immune system recognise and attack cancer cells. It is a major breakthrough in the field of science and modern medicine in treating cancer. For a very long time, we have been treating cancer by either burning it through radiation, cutting or removing it by surgery or poisoning the cancer cells with chemotherapy. This has resulted in lesser cures and numerous, unwanted side effects. So now, there’s a new and different approach to treat cancer- one that acts on the patient’s immune system, instead of cancer.
Immunotherapy leads the way forward to finding better cures as well as reducing the adverse effects. Immunotherapy is a more personalised and tailor-made approach to cancer, as opposed to treating cancer by a “one-size-fits-all” approach. It also happens to be a more targeted treatment, bringing minimal to no collateral damage to the body.
Immunotherapy is an umbrella term that encompasses different modalities to boost the immune system to fight cancer. Some of these are also called Biological therapy or Targeted therapy.
The different types of immunotherapies are such as:
- Monoclonal antibodies (MABs) recognise and attack certain proteins on the surface of cancer cells
- Vaccines help the immune system to recognise and attack cancer.
- Cytokines are a group of proteins, naturally found in the body. They help to boost the immune system.
- CAR T-cell therapy (also called adoptive cell transfer) to change the genes in a person’s white blood cells
- Checkpoint inhibitors are a type of immunotherapy that block different checkpoint proteins.
Did you know-Immunotherapy is a treatment that can be made in a lab?
Yes, we can make cells/ substances in the lab, just like immune cells/components, and use them to HELP our immune system fight cancer cells.
- This is done by making substances in a lab that are just like immune system components and using them to help restore or improve how your immune system works to find and attack cancer cells
- The other way is to modify or train cells to become cancer-fighting cells. These cells when given back to the body jumpstart the process of killing cancer
