What is use to treat lung cancer?

Immunotherapy or immunotherapy drugs is a new cancer treatment method. That has talk about a lot in the past decade. It is a treatment base on the principle of “stimulating the immune system in the patient’s body to help control the patient’s own cancer directly” because originally our immune system has the function of killing germs and preventing foreign substances from entering the body. Cancer is a foreign substance that is a tumor in the body that grows abnormally. But it is a cell that tricks our immune system into thinking that it is a normal cell and gradually grows.

Therefore, with this immune mechanism, research has conducte until method has found make our body’s immune system stronger and able to detect cancer cells. That is, immunotherapy drugs will act to stimulate the patient’s immune system to be smarter and stronger, like arming the immune system to find cancer cells and kill them, thus controlling the disease better, reducing the spread of cancer. It was also found that about 5-10% of patients responded to treatment with immunotherapy drugs until the spreading cancer cells were gone. In addition to treating lung cancer, immunotherapy drugs. Can also used to treat other types of cancer, such as liver cancer, thyroid cancer, melanoma (skin cancer), kidney cancer, colon cancer, etc.

How is immunotherapy good? 

When use to treat lung cancer.

the advantages of using immunotherapy in the treatment of lung cancer include:

• It is an effective treatment for advance cancer with very few side effects compared to other alternative treatments such as targeted therapy, chemotherapy, and radiation.
• Immunotherapy can use in conjunction with other treatments to increase the effectiveness of the treatment, such as using immunotherapy in conjunction with chemotherapy from the start.

However, although the side effects of immunotherapy are few, they can still occur. However, the chance of side effects from immunotherapy is สนใจสมัคร? คลิกที่นี่เพื่อเริ่มต้น only 1-3%. The side effects. That found not as severe as radiation or chemotherapy, such as causing pneumonia. The treatment approach for side effects is not complicate. Can easily treate by stopping the immunotherapy and giving steroids that suppress the immune system. The patient will gradually improve.