Immunotherapy, a growing trend in fighting cancer and other chronic diseases

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Angono, Rizal Philippines

Breakthrough of the year: Immunotherapy in Cancer cure in Science magazine


There are three modes:

1.  monoclonal antibodies that can be paired
2.  cloning T cells
3.  vaccines

There is a an article that says that in the next decade, 60% of cancer cures will come from immunotherapies. This industry will be about $35 billion.

What is immuno therapy?  It is aiding or suppressing body's immune system to fight diseases, allergies, or chronic condition.  While the body's soldiers are very effective, on their own, to locate the invaders and destroy them, the invaders protein/enzymes can fool the body's defense mechanism to ignore them.

One of the research center is that of Fred  Hutchinson  They have worked on cloning T cells to attack cancer cells, and also using radio immunotherapy (cloing antibodies with irradiated bodies, monclonal cells) to target the affected cells, which is more targetted vs. having radiation destroy both healthy and tumor cells.

Watch video of Stan Riddel, oncologiest and researcher at Fred Huthinson  cancer research center.

Read more on immunotherapy at Cancer Research Institute of America