The immune system is a strong weapon against disease, infections and defective cells. Because cancer cells are the body’s mutated cells, they are not always recognized by the immune system as invaders. In Cancer Hospital in Jaipur, immunotherapy is the treatment provided that uses certain parts of an individual’s immune system to fight cancer.
Process of Immunotherapy-
This can be done in a couple of ways:
• Boosting, is the natural defense of your immune system so it works to find and attack cancer cells.
• Removing the block in the immune system that is preventing the immune system from attacking the cancer cell.
Types of immunotherapy in cancer-
Immunotherapy treatments done by Cancer Doctor in Jaipur can be broken down into five types:
• Targeted antibodies are proteins produced by the immune system that can be customized to attack antigens on cancer cells, to disrupt cancerous activity. Some targeted antibody-based immunotherapies, known as antibody-drug conjugates, are equipped with anti-cancer drugs that they can deliver to tumours.
• Adoptive cell therapy takes a patient’s immune cells, expands or otherwise modifies them, and then reintroduces them to the patient, where they can seek out and eliminate cancer cells.
• Oncolytic virus therapy uses viruses that are often modified to tumour cells and cause them to self-destruct.
• Cancer vaccines are designed to elicit an immune response against tumour-associated antigens, encouraging the immune system to attack cancer cells bearing these antigens. Cancer vaccines can be made from a variety of components, including cells, proteins, DNA, viruses, bacteria, and small molecules.
• Immunomodulators govern the activity of other elements of the immune system to enhance existing immune responses against cancer.
• Checkpoint inhibitors target the molecules on either immune or cancer cells that tell them when to start or stop attacking a cancer cell.
• Cytokines are messenger molecules that regulate maturation, growth, and responsiveness.
Cancers treated with immunotherapy-
Immunotherapy drugs have been approved to treat many types of cancer including lung cancer, skin cancer, urinary bladder cancer, kidney cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer, head and neck cancer, etc.
Checking whether immunotherapy is working-
Immunotherapy by Cancer Doctor in Jaipur take longer to produce detectable signs of tumour shrinkage compared to traditional treatments. Sometimes, tumours appear to grow on scans before getting smaller, but this apparent swelling may be caused by immune cells infiltrating and attacking cancer. Many patients who experience this phenomenon, known as pseudo progression, often report feeling better overall. In certain cancer types, immune-related side effects can be linked with treatment success.
