Cancer Immunotherapy

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Cancer Immunotherapy

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My Immunotherapy Journey

Last December I wrote an essay for the Los Angeles Times about what I wanted to do with my life after I was diagnosed with terminal cancer. In July of 2015 — despite multiple surgeries, rounds of radiation, and chemotherapy — three doctors had given me and my husband their bleak perspectives on how much time I had left: “six to nine months,” “months to a year,” “a yearish.”

In the weeks that followed my public coming out about the grim news, a benevolent tidal wave of comments and emails washed over me from friends, co-workers and many thousands of strangers. Now when I run into friends on the streets of my town, they hug me and tell me I look great. But I can see it in their eyes;…

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 My Immunotherapy Journey

Still, after decades of failed promises to “cure” cancer, it’s easy to understand why research oncologists are feeling optimistic right about now. They have real hope. It’s possible patients of the future will experience cancer as something more like a chronic disease, a frightening but manageable illness as opposed to the indiscriminate killer that now enters the lives of 14 million people worldwide every year.

Immunotherapy Foundation

Immunotherapy Foundation (IF) is a non-profit organization that strategically funds the most promising cancer immunotherapy research, focused on HPV-driven cancers.

Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy

Since its inception in 1976, Cancer Immunology, Immunotherapy (CII) has reported significant advances in the field of tumor immunology. The journal serves as a forum for new concepts and advances in basic, translational, and clinical cancer immunology and immunotherapy.

American Cancer Society

In this section you'll learn how the different cells of the immune system work to protect you from disease; the different types of immunotherapy (cancer vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and nonspecific immunotherapies and adjuvants); and what immunotherapy is available for specific cancers.

Bavarian Nordic

Cancer immunotherapy offers improved treatment options with better quality of life.

Cancer Research Institute

Cancer immunotherapy–treatments that harness and enhance the innate powers of the immune system to fight cancer–represents the most promising new cancer treatment approach since the development of the first chemotherapies in the late 1940s.

Cancer Treatment Centers of America

Immunotherapy (sometimes called biological therapy, biotherapy, or biological response modifier therapy) uses your body's immune system, either directly or indirectly, to fight cancer or to lessen the side effects that may be caused by some cancer treatments.

CancerIndex

Links to articles about cancer immunology and immunotherapy

Issels Cancer Immunotherapy

The Issels® Immunotherapy for Cancer program stands out from that of other medical resources, for its remarkable results of long-term cancer remissions by integrating non-toxic immunotherapy as an essential part of an individualized treatment plan.

Mayo Clinic

The Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Program of the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center studies the mechanisms involved in cancer development and how the immune system responds to cancer. The program also develops and tests immune therapies for cancer patients.

Norris Cotton Cancer Center

The mission of the Program is to create an interdisciplinary environment in which important scientific questions in cancer immunology can be addressed and the development of new immunotherapeutic strategies for the treatment of cancer is facilitated.

Takeda Oncology

Our mission remains constant — We endeavor to deliver novel medicines to patients with cancer worldwide through our commitment to science, breakthrough innovation and passion for improving the lives of patients.with multiple myeloma and relapsed mantle cell lymphoma.

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