A Fascinating Behind-the-Scenes Look at Your Immune System

Immunotherapy is a process that uses your body’s immune system to fight cancer. To better understand how immunotherapy works, let’s get into detail about how your immune system works.

Lymphocytes, T-cells, and B-cells

Your body has immune cells that do this by recognizing specific targets on the surface of the pathogen, a bacterium, virus, or other microorganisms or cancer cell that can cause disease. These cells are called Lymphocytes, which are a special kind of white blood cell.

There are two main types of lymphocytes, B-cells and T-cells. T cells and B cells are major cellular components of the adaptive immune response.

T Cells

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