What is the difference between immunotherapy and traditional treatments?

Immunotherapy can kill tumor cells systemically and improve the body’s immune function. Because it is your own immune cell, it has no toxic side effects. When used in combination with radiotherapy and chemotherapy, it can not only offset some of the toxic side effects of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, but also play a sensitizing effect.

1. Immunotherapy mainly adjusts the body's immune system rather than tumor cells, so it can be used to treat various tumors (except T-cell lymphoma), which is consistent with the "strengthening and eliminating evil" theory of traditional Chinese medicine in treating tumors. Different approaches but similar results.

2. Due to the dynamic changes in the immune response in the body, it has diversity in tumor killing functions (clearing treatment-induced tolerance and quiescent tumor cells), thereby reducing potential tumor tolerance possibility.

3. The immune response has memory characteristics, which allows it to exert sustained tumor-killing activity in the body.

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Due to the low radical resection rate of surgical treatment, the high postoperative recurrence and metastasis rate, and the low 5-year survival rate. Even for early stage lesions, many tumors still have a high rate of metastasis. Although radiotherapy and chemotherapy have high short-term effectiveness for a variety of advanced malignant tumors, they are not satisfactory in prolonging survival (they cannot remove resistant cells). Therefore, effective immune cell therapy combined with surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy can prolong progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS), thereby improving patients' quality of life (QOL) and increasing the tumor cure rate.