Immunotherapy
Your immune system gets help from immunotherapy, which is a type of cancer treatment, to fight cancer. The white blood cells and organs and tissues of the lymph system constitute the immune system of your body. A type of treatment using substances made from living organisms to treat cancer is known as biological therapy and immunotherapy is one of its types.
Types of immunotherapy
There are several types of immunotherapy cancer treatment in Kolkata. The immune system gets help from the following types of immunotherapy to act directly against cancer.
- Checkpoint Inhibitors. The immune system can respond more strongly to a tumour with the help of these drugs.
- Adoptive Cell Transfer. The natural ability of your T cells to fight cancer gets a boost from this treatment.
- Monoclonal Antibodies. These are immune system proteins produced in the lab and are also known as therapeutic antibodies. They get attached to specific targets found on cancer cells.
- Treatment Vaccines. The response of your immune system gets a boost from treatment vaccines and in this way, these vaccines work against cancer.
- Cytokines. The cells of your body produce these proteins, which play important roles in the normal immune responses of the body and the ability of the immune system to respond to cancer.
- Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG). In the treatment of blood cancer, this immunotherapy comes into use.
In the treatment of people with many types of cancer, an oncologist uses immunotherapy in India. The cancer cells are able to hide from your immune system and that’s why they are able to thrive. Some immunotherapies make it easier for the immune system to find and destroy cancer cells by marking them. Your immune system gets a boost from other immunotherapies in its fight against cancer.