What is Cancer Immunotherapy?

Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses your own body’s immune system to fight cancer. Immunotherapy awakens the immune system and alerts it to the threat of cancer cells. Once the immune system recognizes the threat, it triggers the immune system to attack the cancer cells. 

Cellular Immunotherapy is a type of immunotherapy in which immune cells are given to a patient to help the body fight diseases, such as cancer. In cancer therapy, immune cells are usually taken from the patient's own blood or tumor tissue, grown in large numbers in the laboratory, and then given back to the patient to help the immune system fight the cancer. 

The cells are modified or expanded in the laboratory to make them better able to target the patient's cancer cells and kill them. Types of cellular adoptive immunotherapy include:

• Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy (CAR T-cell) 
• Natural Killer Cells (NK) Therapy
  
• Cytokine Induced Killer Cells Therapy (CIK)