The Conversation (blog)
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Sri Krishna PhD Candidate, Biological Design, School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University
Most of us know about the conventional treatment of cancer: surgery
to remove tumors, chemotherapy and radiation. But within the last five
years, a new class of drugs that use our immune systems to fight cancer
are gaining traction in cancer treatment. This is called
“immunotherapy.” Instead of killing cancer cells with radiation or
chemotherapy, immunotherapy mobilizes the immune system to fight against
cancer much like it does against bacteria and viruses.
For a training immunologist like myself, immune therapies have opened
new doors to understanding and treating cancers. In the future,
immunotherapy could mean a personalized treatment, entirely tailored to
an individual. As exciting as that sounds, we still have plenty of work
to do, as there remains a lot we don’t know about the immune system.
Here are some of the challenges we need to overcome to create these
personalized treatments......
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