There?s a new weapon to fight cancer, immunotherapy. It?s where you train your body and your immune cells to fight off the cancer cells. Although they?re making progress in the fight against prostate cancer, it doesn?t come cheap.
Immunotherapy means?a custom made vaccine made from the patient?s blood.?First, patient?s?white blood cells are being pulled out of his blood. Those cells are then sent to the makers of the vaccine. Prostate specific proteins are added to cells to train them to fight the cancer cells. Three days later that vaccine is slowly infused back into the patient.
In the meantime, this treatment, known as?provenge, is approved for patients with advanced prostate cancer that?s resistant to hormone therapy.
Source: http://www.prostate-report.org/blog/prostate-cancer/new-hope-with-prostate-cancer-treatment
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