Cancer and the Immune System: Deciphering the Relationship
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Blog Post
Published
March 14, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
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Types of immunotherapeutics
In lieu of the cancer-immune system interactions, therapeutics have been ...therapies include radiation therapy (owing to contributions from Madame Curie), chemotherapy, and surgical...boost the activity of the immune system, the therapeutic ability of even these conventional antitumor ...proteins are one of the most commonly used immunotherapeutic agents. Currently the FDA has 12 approved ...tumors.
Attempts have been made to use whole cell therapeutics consisting of various types of immune cells....cells (DCs) are particularly popular whole cell therapeutics because they can help start a sequence of immune... cells have also been tested as vaccines and therapeutics. Their uptake by DCs is increased and was shown...