New way of cancer treatment found utilizing Immune System. Image Courtesy – Wall Street Journal
The immune system of the human body generates a defence mechanism against unwanted entries of bacteria, viruses, and many other diseases. But a specific problem arises with cancer. The disease that forms with malignant cells that start to grow from within the body and reach an uncontrollable status. The human immune system is specifically programmed to prevent the attack body’s own cells. So, the malignant cells remain unaffected during the body’s defence mechanism.
But scientists have invented some ways to instruct the body’s defence mechanism to attack tumour cells and destroy. This is the latest immune-based treatment technique to fight against several types of the disease.
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Scientists of Kyoto University discovered several ways in which the human immune system is obstructed from attacking tumour cells. Their discovery leads to a new era of medicine that allows the immune system to find infected cells and attack them. It improved the rate of remission of the disease and simultaneously awarded them the Nobel Prize for 2018. The Food and Drug Administration of America has accepted a number of cancer drugs and therapies to enhance the immune system.
Scientists are saying that immunotherapy is going to be the prime way for treating cancer patients in the future. Immunotherapy is a way of treatment that specifically effective against skin cancer, lung cancer, blood cancer etc., but it is still not effective for the common type of cancers like breast, colon, prostate etc.
