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What is immunotherapy? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Using your body's own immune
system to help fight cancer
Can be done by stimulating the immune system to work harder or smarter
to attack the cancer cells or by giving the patient immune system
components
Goals:
, Stop or slow the growth of cancer cells
Stop cancer from spreading to other parts of the body
Help the immune system work better at destroying cancer cells
Most promising new cancer treatment approach since the development of
the first chemotherapies in the 1940s
types of immunotherapy - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Monoclonal antibodies
Deliver drugs or radiation directly to the cancer cell without affecting
healthy cells by targeting specific antigens
Can also be used for diagnosis
Immune checkpoint inhibitors
Take the brakes off the immune system that the cancer cells use to evade
immune surveillance (CTLA4, Programmed cell death 1)
Allow T-cells to recognize and attack cancer cells better
Cancer vaccines