Chemotherapy and radiation are examples of commonly used cancer treatments. There are also numerous alternative cancer treatments available to patients, including immunostimulant therapies and the dendritic cancer vaccine from Oasis of Hope Hospital in Tijuana, Mexico.
Immunostimulating therapies are therapies designed to modify how the body’s immune system reacts to cancer cells. Certain therapies provide immune defenses with added strength, while others focus on repairing a compromised immune system.
Allogeneic lymphocyte therapy is a type of immunostimulation that involves harvesting T-cells from a donor and introducing those cancer-killing cells into an unrelated patient. The T-cells are relocated via a vaccine-type therapy with a track record for driving T-cell production and increasing a patient’s count of dendritic cells. These cells play a key role in the body’s fight against invading pathogens. Oasis of Hope has had success with this approach to cancer treatment and has started research on a similar vaccine using interleukin-2, a critically important substance found in select immune system cells.
Immunostimulating therapies are therapies designed to modify how the body’s immune system reacts to cancer cells. Certain therapies provide immune defenses with added strength, while others focus on repairing a compromised immune system.
Allogeneic lymphocyte therapy is a type of immunostimulation that involves harvesting T-cells from a donor and introducing those cancer-killing cells into an unrelated patient. The T-cells are relocated via a vaccine-type therapy with a track record for driving T-cell production and increasing a patient’s count of dendritic cells. These cells play a key role in the body’s fight against invading pathogens. Oasis of Hope has had success with this approach to cancer treatment and has started research on a similar vaccine using interleukin-2, a critically important substance found in select immune system cells.