Is cancer chemotherapy dying?

What exactly is immunotherapy? Immunotherapy is a therapeutic approach that uses humoral and/or cellular elements of the immune system to fight a disease. One could give immune cells from outside or boost body's own immune cells to attack cancer. [Figure 1] depicts various aspects of innate and...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Asian journal of transfusion science 2016-05, Vol.10 (3), p.1-7
Main Author: Agarwal, M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antigens
Cancer
Cancer therapies
Cancer vaccines
Chemotherapy
Dr. H.M. Bhatia Oration, 2016
Immunotherapy
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:What exactly is immunotherapy? Immunotherapy is a therapeutic approach that uses humoral and/or cellular elements of the immune system to fight a disease. One could give immune cells from outside or boost body's own immune cells to attack cancer. [Figure 1] depicts various aspects of innate and acquired immunity. [2] Innate immune system can be activated by using safe adjuvants which can be used in vivo. The whole concept of cancer vaccines is to activate tumour antigen-specific immunity [Figure 2].
ISSN:0973-6247
1998-3565
DOI:10.4103/0973-6247.182735