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Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that helps your immune system fight cancer. It can be used alone or in combination with chemotherapy and/or other cancer treatments.
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.
Immunotherapies may be administered either into a vein (intravenously), by an injection, under the skin (subcutaneously) or into a muscle (intramuscularly).
Chemotherapy kills fast-growing cells—both cancerous and non-cancerous—in the body. Immunotherapy helps the immune system do a better job of identifying cancer cells so it can attack and kill them.
As clinical trial are ongoing more cancers are now being treated with immunotherapy. Immunotherapy doesn't work for all types of cancer or for all people with cancer. There are also cost implications for receiving some of these immunotherapy drugs.