If enough of those powerful activated immune lymphocytes are given back to the person who has cancer, the cancer can be eliminated from all parts of the body. Activated effector lymphocytes can be an effective treatment for immunogenic cancers. Susceptibility to cancer antigen immunotherapy is dependent on delivering high numbers of activated effector lymphocytes as early as possible during disease progression. Cancer antigen immunotherapy can be delivered with few negative side effects. As much cancer tissue will be removed without compromising quality of life, because it is impossible to remove too many cancer cells from the body.
Vaccination is a painless outpatient procedure and takes only a few minutes to perform.
There are no significant side effects. After the vaccination has been successfully performed, white blood cells will be removed from the blood by a process called leukapheresis. Leukapheresis is a painless outpatient procedure during which the patient will be connected to a machine for several hours while the white blood cells are being removed. After the white blood cells have been fully energized to kill cancer cells, they will be returned to the patient s body. Reinfusion is a painless outpatient procedure that takes several hours.