Cancer Therapy with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors | pores.fi
Channel: PoRes Communication
Date: 01/10/2018

Cancer Therapy with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors

Cancer drugs have been developed to help the immune system to better recognize and destroy cancer cells.

These drugs are called immune checkpoint inhibitors. They work on the molecular level to expose the cancer cells to normal immune cells, activating the immune system to destroy the cancerous cells.

Immune checkpoint inhibitors are promising drugs for cancers that have been difficult to treat. In the best case, these drugs provide good and sustained control on the disease, but they are not effective on all cancers. The medically induced changes in the immune system may cause quite challenging adverse reactions which are different from those caused by traditional cancer treatments.

In this video we tell you the basics about how they work and what kind of adverse reactions they may cause.

Producer: The Association of Cancer Patients in Finland, Suomen Syöpäpotilaat ry, syopapotilaat.fi
Music: Saana Karikumpu
Animation and script: Annika Laakso, PhD / PoRes Communication, pores.fi
Voiceover: Roger Wilson CBE HonMD HonLLD, rogerwilson.me.uk 

More information in English:
https://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatments-and-side-effects/treatment-types/immunotherapy/immune-checkpoint-inhibitors.html
http://www.ema.europa.eu/ema/index.jsp?curl=pages/special_topics/landing/cancer_disease_area.jsp&mid=WC0b01ac058034ed06

In Finnish:
http://sic.fimea.fi/3_2015/syovan_immunoterapian_uusi_tuleminen
http://sic.fimea.fi/arkisto/2016/2_2016/palstat/pd-1-vasta-aineiden-kayttoaiheet-laajenevat
http://sic.fimea.fi/verkkolehdet/2017/2_2017/palstat/immuunivasteen-muuntajien-haitat-vaativat-valppautta
http://sic.fimea.fi/verkkolehdet/2017/2_2017/biologiset-laakkeet/vasta-aineet-ovat-muuttaneet-kiinteiden-syopakasvaimien-hoitoa 
https://www.duodecimlehti.fi/lehti/2016/8/duo13106
https://www.duodecimlehti.fi/lehti/2016/8/duo13089
https://www.duodecimlehti.fi/lehti/2017/3/duo13542