What is immunotherapy and introduces the development of immunotherapy

Immunotherapy is a concept that uses the immune system to treat diseases, such as the development of antiviral vaccines, HPV virus, HSV virus antibody culture, etc. Immunotherapy can also be considered as using the immune system to treat diseases. Generally speaking, it is a relatively large treatment system. Because of its advantages such as good safety and tolerability, no toxic side effects, and the ability to significantly improve patients' quality of life and prolong survival time, it has become a new treatment method in addition to surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy for comprehensive cancer treatment and is widely used in clinical practice. application.

In the second half of the 19th century, French biologist Pasteur was studying the treatment of cholera in chickens and discovered that a weakened vaccine made by weakening the activity of Vibrio cholerae on sick chickens could make chickens susceptible to cholera. Cholera disease produces active immunity. Later, he used the same method to make attenuated vaccines against anthrax and anti-rabies vaccines in 1881 and 1885 respectively. In 1890, German microbiologist von Behring and Japanese microbiologist Kitasato Shibasaburo (1852-1931) working in Germany successfully developed anti-diphtheria toxin serum and anti-tetanus toxin serum. In the 20th century, there were new developments in immunotherapy, especially the invention of BCG, which effectively prevented tuberculosis. In recent years, immunotherapy has been used to treat genital warts and genital herpes by using self-infected tissue to cultivate antibodies, which has caused shock in the medical community.