Immunotherapy has become a powerful clinical strategy for treating cancer.
What is immunotherapy ?
Immunotherapy for cancer is a form of treatment that uses the body’s immune system to combat the disease. Today, immunotherapy is being applied to a wide range of cancers, often in combination with other agents, and clinical trials are exploring ways of improving and expanding its effectiveness.
Not all patients with these cancers are eligible for immunotherapy. A variety of factors — the genetic makeup of the tumor cells, how far the cancer has advanced and whether it has responded to previous treatments
Immunotherapy has been approved for the treatment of the following cancers.
1- Bladder cancer
2- Breast cancer
3- cervical cancer
4- colorectal Cancer
5- head and neck cancer
6- esophagus cancer
7- kidney cancer
8- leukemia
9- liver cancer
10- lung cancer
11- lymphoma
12- melanoma
13- prostate cancer
14- skin cancer
Difference between immunotherapy Vs chemotherapy
Unlike chemotherapy, which acts directly on cancerous tumors, immunotherapy treats patients by acting on their immune system. Immunotherapy can boost the immune response in the body as well as teach the immune system how to identify and destroy cancer cells.
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