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How does immunotherapy work - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Leverages your immune
system to fight and learn how to detect and kill the offending cells in the
future
2 proteins on surfaces of cells for inhibitory signals - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔CTLA-
4 and PD-1
Main goal of T cells - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Turn on immune system, turning up
immune system and turning off immune system
, How are T cells and cancer antigens related to - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Cancer
releases antigens to impact T cells, T cells realized something weird is
going on with that cell type, and that's when it starts linking onto the cancer
antigen and signals to the system for more T cells to infiltrate the tumor
cells, and kill them
How to T cells recognize cancer - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Antigens on the surface
Types of immunotherapy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔monoclonal antibodies, CART
cells, cytokines, vaccines
mABs - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Type of a protein made in lab that binds to only 1
substances
- aka targeted therapy
Main goal of mABs - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔1) Cause an immune response that
destroys cancer cells
2) mark/tag cancer cells so its easier for the immune system to find and
destroy them
3) can be used along to carry drugs, toxins, or radioactive substances
directly to cancer cells