Consult with Dr. Vikesh Shah MBBS, MD (AIIMS, New Delhi)
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• Immunotherapy is considered As Fourth Modality of Cancer Treatment After Surgery, Chemotherapy And Radio Therapy.
• This technique uses immune cells (Type of Antigen Presenting Cells of Immune System) which activate the immune system to combat cancerous process.
• Nobel Prize in Medicine 2011 – Dr. Ralph Steinmann for Discovery of Dendritic cells and its role in tumour immunology.
• It is a personalized cancer treatment plan which is made by patient’s own white blood cells collected from peripheral blood.
• We extract the immune cells, transform them into cancer fighting cells and transplant them into the same patient. These immune cells then activate the immune system to fight against the tumour.