What is Immunotherapy?
What is immunotherapy?
A treatment that uses the immune system to fight diseases like cancer.
How is this helpful when someone has cancer?
It improve the immune systems ability to destroy cancerous cells.
What does the immune system protect the body from?
The immune system protects the body from harmful invaders, such as viruses, bacteria, and cancer cells.
What type of immunotherapy involves T cells to be taken from a patient ?
CAR-T Cell Therapy
What can be used to treat Lukemia?
CAR T-cell therapy
What is it designed for?
The immune system is designed to protect us from harmful invaders
What does immunotherapy boost/ adjust?
Immunotherapy boosts or adjusts the immune system.
How does it protect the body?
By recognizing and attacking them using antigens, antibodies, and immune cells.
What is the therapy used for allergies?
Allergen Desensitization
Yes it can help eliminate cancer.
What might it struggle with?
It struggles to target things like cancer cells or mistakenly attacks healthy tissues.
How does it help with allergies?
For allergies, immunotherapy provides long-term relief by retraining the immune system to tolerate allergens, rather than just masking symptoms.
What are antigens?
Antigens are unique markers found on the surface of pathogens or abnormal cells (like cancer cells)
Why do checkpoint inhibitors allow for?
Allows for T cells to remain active and attack cancer cells.
What can happen after a person goes through CAR T-cell therapy?
The person can go into remission.
What does it address?
It addresses the challenge of treating diseases that the immune system can't fight effectively on its own.
It can cause fewer side effects than traditional treatments.
How do helper T cells help immune cells?
Helper T cells activate other immune cells, including B cells and cytotoxic T cells.
In autoimmune diseases, the immune system attacks___.
It attacks the body’s own tissues.
Can Immunotherapy be used if the cancer didn’t respond to traditional treatments
Yes it can be used to help fight the cancer.
What is its main goal?
To better recognize and destroy harmful cells, or even reduce harmful immune responses.
Why is this helpful for cancer patients?
It offers new treatment options, especially for cancers that are hard to treat and reduces the need for other treatments such as chemotherapy.
What are the two parts if the immune response?
Innate immunity and adaptive immunity.
In CAR-T Cell Therapy why are T cells taken?
To be modified in the lab to better recognize cancer cells.
After CAR T-cell therapy, what happens to T cells?
They are modified to better recognize and attack the cancer.