Cure or life with cancer? What can be achieved by cancer immune therapy? The past decade has seen substantial advancements in tumor immunology. Much of the new knowledge has been translated into new strategies for cancer...
read more at http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&id=C4lAAHBStlAC&dq=immune+therapy+cancer&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=qwA3qHB_qc&sig=TPivHcoVrMUpnJ3S2m8FCN_pMj8#PPP1,M1
Showing posts with label immune therapy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immune therapy. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 March 2008
Cancer Immune Therapy
Biological Therapy
Doctors are not sure how biological therapy helps your immune system fight cancer. But they think it may:
Stop or slow the growth of cancer cells.
Make it easier for your immune system to destroy, or get rid of, cancer cells.
Keep cancer from spreading to other parts of your body
read more at http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/biologicaltherapy
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Immune Therapy
In the 1850s, doctors in Germany noticed that patients' tumours would occasionally shrink if their tumour became infected. This observation led to the idea that the body's immune system could be harnessed and made to fight cancer.
Around the same time, doctors throughout Europe, encouraged by the success of Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccine, attempted to make a 'cancer vaccine' by injecting patients with crude extracts of tumours from other cancer patients. These treatments were largely ineffective, but the field of 'immunotherapy' was born.
read more at http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerandresearch/learnaboutcancer/treatment/immunotherapy/?a=5441
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