How Immunotherapy Cancer Treatment Works
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- čas přidán 3. 02. 2016
- Immunotherapy is a newer form of cancer treatment that uses the patient's immune system to fight cancer. This treatment uses materials created by the body or within a laboratory to help boost or restore the immune system's function so that it can better detect and fight the cancer. Visit www.oacancer.com/immunotherapy... to learn more about immunotherapy treatment. Currently there are various immunotherapy cancer drugs being studied to fight many different types of advanced and metastatic cancer, including lung cancer, melanoma, ovarian and battle the cancer.
In this video, oncologist Stephen Lemon MD provides an overview on #immunotherapy including how this cancer treatment works and what types of side effects it may cause.
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Dr Stephen Lemon is medical oncologist who now practices at Overlake Cancer Center Bellevue WA. He produces cancer information videos and web related cancer education projects.
He invites you to follow his ongoing work at www.lightersideofcancer.com/ - Věda a technologie
Another great sharing on immunotherapy. To be specific, cancer immunotherapy refers to immune checkpoint inhibitors treatment. They are likely the most advanced cancer treatment at present. And good news is that it does helps to relive cancer conditions from sever state to a much better state and with no relapse. But It not suits to all patients.
Not true. Checkpoint inhibitors are only one kind. Then there is CAR-T , and also vaccines.
My Dad has been told his lung tumours have shrunk but other parts have progressed, how is this so, has the cancer changed in order not to be found and attacked?
That is a possibility. I am assuming he is on Keytruda, or Opdivo or some other checkpoint inhibitor. These work best on tumors that express a protein (Ligand) called PD-L1. PD-L1 is what stops immune cells from killing cancer cells. Checkpoint inhibitors block PD L1. However if a sub population of the cancer mutates (changes) to drop PD L1 , checkpoint inhibitors become less effective.
what kind of cell you using for this immunetherapy?? T cell?? chekpoint blokade?? NK killer or dendritic cell?? are you banking any biological cell for treatment?? and is it viable??
My mom is lung cancer patients.and the cancer almost whole body brain. Kidney. Adrenal. Liver....and The doc. Suggest for immunotherapy.....my question is is immunotherapy better or camotherapy
Yes..
In response to why we don't use immunotherapy in first line treatment: imagine you are a patient and your odds of survival are 80% with cisplatin-based chemo. What doctor would use immunotherapy with unknown outcome? It's not ethical, thus the trials are on last chance patients. We aren't there yet. Immunotherapy still has a lot of unknowns. I think advances with checkpoint inhibitors is the next big advancement used in conjunction with targeted T-cell activation. But T-cell a activation alone isn't culturing it to acceptable clinical results.
Nancy Gossett immnutherapy is approved by the FDA now. it's no longer just the trial meds .
Immunotherapy is also the least effective as a last line treatment when the body's immune system has been destroyed by rounds and rounds of chemo. That's why most immunotherapy relapses tend to happen to those who have been heavily pretreated and best responses to people who are newly diagnosed or have had little chemo. Chemo is the enemy of immunotherapy.
why isn't immunotherapy used as a first option instead of radiation and chemo?
michelle kearsey could be because it's expensive? it's a shame because we live in such a system where we don't put health care and medicine at the forefront and instead spending billions on wars killing people. we need to come together use the money and try and help save lives.
michelle kearsey I responded to your question . We just aren't there yet. You only hear the headlines when someone survives.
I think immunotherapy should be a first option because it works with your immune system because chemo and radiation do disable the cells and put the cancer off for awhile but radiation and chemo can make you really really sick
michelle kearsey well duh. Find one that works! We aren't there yet
michelle kearsey