Cancer and Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy is a treatment that uses the body's immune system to fight cancer. Learn about the different types of immunotherapy and the types of cancer they treat. Currently, the main immunotherapies used to treat cancer include:
- Cancer vaccines
- Monoclonal antibodies
- Immune checkpoint inhibitors
- Other, non-specific immunotherapies
Some types of immunotherapy are sometimes called biological therapy or biologic therapy.
In recent decades, immunotherapy has become an important part of the treatment of some types of cancer. New types of immunotherapy are currently being researched and will impact how cancer is treated in the future.
Immunotherapies include treatments that work in different ways. Some boost the body's immune system in very general ways. Others help train the immune system to specifically attack cancer cells. Immunotherapy is more effective against some types of cancer than others. For some of these cancers, it may be used alone, but for others it seems to work better when combined with other types of treatment.
- Feline Leukemia Vaccines
- Cancer Immunotherapy Biomarkers
- Non-specific cancer immunotherapies and adjuvants
- Oncolytic viral therapies
- Gene-therapy
- CAR T-Cell Therapy
