Cancer What is radioimmunotherapy?

Radioimmunotherapy is a revolutionary cancer treatment that is producing remarkable results in treating blood cancers, including leukemia and lymphoma. The technique combines two types of therapy: radiation therapy & immune therapy, using monoclonal antibodies
Monoclonal antibodies are man-made immune proteins used to target and attach to the surface of a cell. In radioimmunotherapy, radiation-emitting molecules, called radioisotopes, attach to the monoclonal antibodies. Those monoclonal antibodies carry the radiation-emitting molecule to the cancer cells and result in a more localized, target-specific irradiation. As the radioisotope attaches to the surface of the cancer cell, the cancer cells are killed