Question

What is immunotherapy? Name at least two diseases where immunotherapy has been used successfully as a treatment strategy.

What is the difference between immune check point inhibitors and immune cell therapy? Explain giving examples for each.

Answer 1

Immunotherapy is the treatment of disease by activating or suppressing the immune system.

For example americal immunotherapy givea example regarding this.

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
• Making substances in a lab that are just like immune system components and using them to help restore or improve how your immune system works to find and attack cancer cells

Immune checkpoints are molecules on certain immune cells that need to be activated (or inactivated) to start an immune response.

Cancer cells sometimes find ways to use these checkpoints to avoid being attacked by the immune system. But drugs that target these checkpoints hold a lot of promise as cancer treatments. These drugs are called checkpoint inhibitors.

It's important to know that checkpoint inhibitors used to treat cancer don't work directly on the tumor at all. They only take the brakes off an immune response that has begun but hasn't yet been working at its full force.

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