Dr. Animesh Saha
Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist
Apollo Multi-Specialty Hospital, Kolkata
Best Oncologist in Kolkata
Website: www.dranimeshsaha.com
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What is Immunotherapy?
Immunotherapy is treatment that uses a person's own immune system to fight cancer. Immunotherapy can boost or change how the immune system works so it can find and attack cancer cells.


How Immunotherapy is used to treat Cancer patients?
Immunotherapy is treatment that uses certain parts of a person’s immune system to fight diseases such as cancer. This can be done in a couple of ways:
• Stimulating, or boosting, the natural defenses of your immune system so it works harder or smarter to find and attack cancer cells
• Making substances in a lab that are just like immune system components and using them to help restore or improve how your immune system works to find and attack cancer cells.
What are the different Cancers that can be treated with Immunotherapy?
Immunotherapy works better for some types of cancer than for others. It has proven to be beneficial in Lung cancer, head & neck cancer, Bladder cancer, GI cancer, Breast cancer, Kidney cancer, Liver Cancer, Endometrial cancers. Clinical trails are going on in other cancer to evaluate its effectiveness.


What are the different types of Immunotherapy?
There are several main types of immunotherapy used to treat cancer, and many are being studied.
1. Check point inhibitors
2. Chimeric antigen receptor(CAR)-T cell therapy
3. Cytokines
4. Immunomodulators
5. Cancer Vaccines
6. Mono-clonal antibodies
7. Oncolytic virus