What advantages does immunotherapy have over traditional methods of treating cancer?

The current methods of treating tumors mainly include surgery, radiotherapy and drug therapy. Different from the treatment of any disease, tumors are systemic diseases.

The destruction of human cell immune function is an important cause of tumor recurrence, spread and metastasis. It can be said that as long as the recurrence and metastasis of tumors can be prevented, Metastasis solves the fundamental problem of cancer.

Biological therapy of tumors can be divided into non-specific immunomodulator therapy, tumor vaccine therapy, immune checkpoint blockade therapy and immune cell therapy according to the principle of treatment.

Immune cell therapy is considered to be the fourth major cancer treatment technology after surgery, radiotherapy (radiotherapy) and chemotherapy (chemotherapy). Its basic principle is to isolate and obtain the patient's own immune cells.

Under the induction of cytokines, a large number of immune cells with high anti-tumor activity are amplified, and then reinfused into the patient's body to restore the body's immune system. The power of a patient's immune system to attack tumors.

In the process of cancer evolution, cancer cells in the body need to escape the surveillance of the body's immune system and divide repeatedly after escaping, making it difficult for immune cells to prevent the onset and development of cancer. Some cancer cells may even inhibit Immune cells proliferate and attack immune cells.

This is like the rebel cancer cells in the human body, which escaped after being initially hunted by the immune cells of the security army, and continued to grow in strength of the rebels, ultimately making it impossible for the security army to stop the rebels from advancing. During the battle, the rebels continued to attack the city and finally occupied the human body, making the rebellion successful.

Immune cell therapy is like artificially enhancing the armed strength of immune cells, transforming ordinary soldiers into super soldiers like "Captain America", and then injecting them back into the battlefield in the patient's body, thus changing the pattern of war. practices that change.

Advantages of immune cell therapy

The discovery of DC and NK cells in the 1970s and further research in recent years have proven the important role of immune cells in tumor treatment. According to the latest Statistics show that compared with patients with advanced lung cancer, gastric cancer, kidney cancer and other tumors who only received surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, the average survival time of patients treated with adjuvant immune cell therapy was significantly longer, and the overall effectiveness of treatment was also significantly improved. Its specific advantages are as follows:

01. Make up for the shortcomings of traditional treatment

After malignant tumors occur in the body, for many tumors, early surgical removal is the first choice. However, surgical therapy alone cannot remove tumor cells remaining in the blood and lymphatic system. Therefore, patients after surgery or who have lost the opportunity for surgery need to undergo chemotherapy or radiotherapy. However, chemotherapy and radiotherapy are not comprehensive enough and should be supplemented by other treatments.

02. Reduce postoperative recurrence and metastasis

Immune cell therapy after surgery can significantly enhance the function of the immune system of tumor patients and help remove residual cancer cells and Micro-metastasis, reducing the chance of local recurrence and distant metastasis;

03. Combination therapy improves prognosis

Immune cell therapy is performed during the interval between tumor radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which has synergistic anti- The tumor effect helps to make patients more tolerant to the toxic and side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, enhances the ability to resist tumors, and improves the comprehensive treatment effect of malignant tumors;

04. Strongly targeted to a small number of tumors

Immune cell therapy is a potential alternative treatment for kidney cancer, malignant melanoma and other special types of malignant tumors that are less sensitive to radiotherapy and chemotherapy;

05. Improve the quality of life

Immune cells are activated and expanded in vitro and then reinfused into the body to directly kill tumor cells or stimulate the body's anti-tumor immune response, thereby achieving the purpose of controlling tumor recurrence and metastasis, prolonging the patient's survival, and improving the patient's Multiple goals such as quality of life;

06. Safe, low or no side effects

Compared with traditional methods, biological treatment is more precise and only targets the tumor cells themselves. kind of treatment. Immune cell therapy technology uses the body's own immune cells instead of traditional chemicals to kill tumor cells. It is safer and has less toxic and side effects.

Japan is one of the first countries in the world to approve the use of cellular immunotherapy. After nearly two decades of unremitting research, it has developed cellular immunotherapy into a therapy that breaks the body’s immune tolerance, activates and enhances it. It is a new treatment technology that combines the immune capabilities of the recipient with the triple effects of severe treatment, prevention of cancer recurrence, and rapid recovery after severe treatment. Judging from the cases of cancer patients served by Duomu Health who went to Japan for cellular immunotherapy, it is indeed possible to achieve relatively good curative effects. Currently, Japanese cellular immunotherapy has become a new trend in cancer treatment.