Articles of category "Immunotherapy"

The immunotherapy description includes the idea of immunotherapy (also known as biologic therapy), the notions of inner and adaptive immune response and immunotherapy side effects. It is treatment that uses certain parts of the immune system to fight disease, including cancer. This can be done by stimulating your own immune system to work harder or by using an outside source, such as manmade immune system proteins.

You can't see them. You can't touch them or smell them. But they're there. And it's a good thing to. I'm referring to antibodies and the role they play in our body. Many oncologists now regard immunotherapy as the "fourth modality," or the fourth method to cure cancer. Many advances against cancer in the future will probably come from this field. In this section you'll learn how the antibodies of the immune system work to protect you from malady; and the different types of antibodies (therapeutic antibodies and monoclonal antibodies).