Cancer Immunotherapy

The American Cancer Society explains exactly what cancer immunotherapy is and what we should know about it. This is a treatment that uses certain part of a person’s immune system to fight such diseases as cancer. Several ways can be applied, such as:

• Stimulating your own immune system to work harder or marketed to attack cancer cells
• Giving you immune system components, such as man-made immune system proteins

There are some types that are sometimes called biologic therapy or biotherapy. Immunotherapy has become an important element in the last few decades for treating some types of cancer. There are …read more