What is cancer immunotherapy?
Cancer immunotherapy can be employed as a standalone treatment, but is also commonly paired with other types of treatment to increase the viability of each. Immunotherapy treatment comes in many different forms including cancer vaccines, checkpoint inhibitors, adoptiv...
"Tests and scans currently available are unable to detect such microscopic spread and therefore to improve chances of cure, presumptive treatment of such likely spread is often undertaken even after the cancer in the solid organ of origin is completely removed. "Depending on the type of can...
CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY: WHAT, WHY, WHEN, HOW.Discusses nursing guidelines in cancer immunotherapy. Indications for immunotherapy; Factors to consider; Steps to follow.KorenMary ElaineHerrmannChristy SimoNursing
While immunotherapy has given patients more treatment options, it is by no means the one-shot, cure-all for cancer. Using traditional therapies like surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy, in combination with the immunotherapy options described above, will give clinicians the ability to develop...
to patients with the HER2-positive form of the disease.Another discovery has been the promise of treatment called immunotherapy, as researchers around the world have discovered ways to use the body's own immune(免疫的) system to battle cancer cells.Also driving hope is a focus on prevention....
Adoptive immunotherapy using cultured T cells holds promise for the treatment of cancer and infectious disease. Culture platforms based upon hard materials, such as polystyrene plastic, form the basis of many culture systems. The mechani... R O'Connor,X Hao,K Shen,... - 《Journal of Immunolo...
GVAX: an allogeneic, whole-cell, GM-CSF-secreting cellular immunotherapy for the treatment of prostate cancer: Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy: Vol 7,... Antitumor vaccines, also known as active immunotherapies, have become an intense focus of research over the last decade as a means to ...
Radiotherapy, together with surgery, chemotherapy and palliative care, are the cornerstones of cancertreatment. Radiotherapy is recommended forhalf of cancer patients. It is mostly used when the cancer is localised to one or more areas. Depending on the cancer site and stage, radiotherapy can be ...
Dendritic cells in cancer immunotherapy. Annu Rev Immunol18: 245-273 The potential to harness the potency and specificity of the immune system underlies the growing interest in cancer immunotherapy. One such approach uses bo... L Fong,EG Engleman - 《Annual Review of Immunology》 被引量: 926...