cancer immunotherapy
Immune-based tumor treatment
Cancer immunotherapy is a class of treatments that harness the body's immune system to fight cancer.
Rather than attacking tumors directly like chemotherapy or radiation, immunotherapy trains or enhances immune cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells: She responded well to immunotherapy after other treatments failed.
Types include checkpoint inhibitors, CAR-T cell therapy, and cancer vaccines.
- T-cellsThymus-matured immune lymphocytes
- antigenImmune response inducer
- monoclonal antibodiesIdentical lab-cloned immune proteins
- killer T cellsLymphocytes that destroy infected cells
- leukemia treatmentTherapy for blood malignancy
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Anti-cancer drug treatment
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