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Immunotherapy Treatment Types

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Wherever you are on your cancer treatment journey, you may want information on the types of immunotherapy available today. Here we describe some of the different approaches to cancer immunotherapy and how they are used to treat a wide variety of cancers. Please note that these treatments do not include all cancer immunotherapies currently available, but represent some promising approaches that are currently approved by the FDA or being tested in clinical trials.

Adoptive Cell Therapy

Adoptive cell therapy is a type of cancer treatment that reactivates, enhances, and expands naturally occurring, cancer-fighting immune cells before re-infusing them into patients.

Cancer Vaccines

Preventive vaccines can protect against cancer development, whereas therapeutic vaccines can stimulate immune responses against existing tumors.

Immunomodulators

Immunomodulators are a form of immunotherapy that manipulate the “gas pedals” and “brakes” of the immune system to fight cancer.

Oncolytic Virus Therapy

Oncolytic virus therapy uses modified viruses that can infect and destroy tumor cells.

Targeted Antibodies

Targeted antibodies are a type of immunotherapy that can disrupt cancer cell activity and alert the immune system to attack cancer.

*Immunotherapy results may vary from patient to patient.

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