The scope of immunotherapy is constantly expanding. Immunotherapy shows the greatest effectiveness in the treatment of lung cancer and melanoma. At the moment, it can also be used in the treatment of:
pancreatic cancer,
Hodgkin’s lymphoma,
neuroblastoma,
prostate cancer,
bladder cancer,
kidney cancer and so on.
So, for example, with progressive melanoma, which is difficult to treat by other methods, the effectiveness of immunotherapy is about 40%. In general, stable remission is achieved in 10-30% of patients after a course of immunotherapy. Considering that these people were doomed in the past due to the inability of doctors to stop cancer with traditional methods, it can be said that immunotherapy offers hope for many patients to overcome cancer.
Another property of immunotherapy that scientists emphasize is that after a course of taking drugs, the immune system “remembers” cancer cells. And if after some time they reappear in the patient’s body, the immune system immediately turns on the mechanism for their destruction.