Immunotherapy is a type of treatment that uses the body’s own immune system to recognize and kill cancer cells. Cancer cells often can fool the body into not recognizing they are dangerous. If the body can’t tell the difference between cancer ce...
Immunotherapy has the potential to achieve durable clinical responses in some patients. In addition, an improved quality of life may also make Immunotherapy an attractive choice for people who have this treatment option. Immunotherapy may be an ...
Different forms of Immunotherapy may be given in different ways.
These include:
Intravenous (IV): The Immunotherapy goes directly into a vein.Oral: The Immunotherapy comes in pills or capsules that you swallow.Topical: The Immunotherapy...
As part of its normal function, the immune system detects and destroys abnormal cells and most likely prevents or curbs the growth of many cancers. For instance, immune cells are sometimes found in and around tumors. These cells, called tumor-infilt...
Immunotherapy can cause side effects, many of which happen when the immune system that has been revved-up to act against the cancer also acts against healthy cells and tissues in the body. Different people have different side effects. The ones you h...
What are the types of Immunotherapy?
Monoclonal antibodies (mABs)
Monoclonal antibodies are laboratory produced antibodies designed to recognise and bind to specific receptors found on the surface of cells. They are derived from natural antibo...
Vaccines to treat cancer
Vaccines are a type of Immunotherapy. Research in this area is at an early stage and vaccines are mainly available as part of clinical trials.
What vaccines are?
Normally, vaccines help to protect us from disease. ...
CAR T-cell therapy
CAR T-cell therapy is a type of Immunotherapy. You might also hear it called a type of adoptive cell transfer.CAR T-cell therapy is a very complex and specialist treatment. With this treatment, a specialist collects and makes ...
Radioimmunotherapy (RIT) involves a small amount of radioactive material (radionuclide) — that is combined with a molecule engineered in a laboratory (monoclonal antibody). This monoclonal antibody-radionuclide compound is called a radiopharmaceut...
What conditions are treated with radioimmunotherapy?
There are two RIT agents approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Zevalin and Bexxar. Both of these are used to treat patients with B-cell Follicular non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL) that has not responded to Chemotherapy treatment, al...
RIT offers more personalized Cancer Treatment because radiopharmaceuticals can be tailored to the unique biologic characteristics of the patient‘s tumor, are highly selective in their ability to adhere to cancer cells, and can limit radiation ex...
The medical facility where the RIT treatment is performed will provide you with instructions for special care to be taken at home, including important steps to take immediately afterwards, and in the days and week following treatment. These instruct...
What is Immunotherapy in Cancer?
