Different Types Of Immunotherapy For Lung Cancer Treatment

Immunotherapy• This one among the treatment methodology(

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• Cells used for this treatment procedures are either developed in the body or in the laboratory.

• This is given as a pill, injection, topically as a cream, etc…

• Some of the types of Immunotherapy is shown in the further slides

Monoclonal antibodies• This type of antibody is produced in the laboratory.

• This monoclonal antibodies are popularly meant to be mAbs which are found to target and destroy the specific antigen in the tumor cell.

• This antibodies are used accompanied with radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

• Ipilimumab, Avastin, Patritumab, Demcizumab, and so forth some of the mAbs.

Non-specific Immunotherapy• This types utilizes the proteins produced by WBCs to produce

the immune power in the body.

• Like mAbs they are given to gradually destroy the cancer cell.• • They are given either accompanied with other treatment

process of cancer or as a main treatment.

• Interferon and Interleukins are the two main types of non-specific immunotherapy.

Adoptive T-cell therapy• The T cells removed from patients blood is utilized for this

treatment process.

• These cells get the receptors in the laboratory and ingrained into the patient.

• The receptors are developed in large number and let into the patients body.

• They destroy or stop the growth of the cancer cell.

Checkpoint inhibitors• As the name suggests the inhibitors brakes the cancer cell

from further development or increase the immune system to fight against and destroy the cancer cell.

• These checkpoint inhibitors are in several numbers and are being developed in many types.

• Some of the predominant inhibitors are PD-1, CTLA-4

Therapeutic cancer vaccines

• Vaccines is also the important method used in immunotherapy cancer treatment((http://lungcancersymptomsx.com/immunotherapy-for-lung-cancer.html) .

• Vaccines are of two types which represents, prevention vaccine and treatment vaccine.

• These vaccines makes the immune system to find for the cancer cells and destroy them completely.

• The above are some of the types of immunotherapy treatment

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• The updates about the lung cancer drugs is also stated.