Immunotherapy for cancer treatment in Delhi/India – Patient education and resources about immunotherapy

[Dr waseem abbas]

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Immunotherapy, as a cancer treatment plan, enables the human immune system to fight and get over cancer in as effectively a way as it can. It works in dual ways, one by suppressing the workings of the immune system and other, by enhancing it.

Normally, our immune system keeps up with the fight with diseases, and tumorous cells, but cancer cells can sometimes escape the powerful working of our immune system. This is primarily due to three reasons, the most common of them being a genetic predisposition to cancer, which fools the immune system into believing that there is nothing dangerous, when, in fact, there actually is a lot going on.

Immunotherapy gives extra abilities to our immune system and makes it a better fighter against these cells, helping it identify the cells and destroying them from their very core. Lately, different types of immunotherapy have been introduced in the medical arena, that not only helps your body prevent the acquisition of cancer, but also in removing it from your body.

Some of these immunotherapy variations include the immune checkpoint inhibitors, t-cell transfer therapy, monoclonal antibodies, treatment vaccines, and immune system modulators.

We have found solutions to resist the progression of cancer, predicting immunotherapy responses, and reducing side effects while working with our patients, and we hope to work with the consistent zeal throughout.

Is Immunotherapy for cancer treatment a new therapy and does it work?

Immunotherapy has been there for so many years but now research has started and what we have seen it does not work for everybody and every cancer. There are few predictive biomarkers which guide us and tell us whether immunotherapy will work or not. One has to be very rationale in deciding whom to give it or not. We have seen dramatic improvement in some patients. Patient selection is the key.