2023-10-07 08:00:09
In a few years, immunotherapy, whose breakthrough in oncology is impressive, could dethrone other anticancer treatments.
This article comes from “Figaro Magazine”
Chemotherapy is an atomic bomb: it kills cancer cells but generates collateral damage in the process. Medications, most often administered by intravenous infusion, also destroy rapidly multiplying cells: hair, hair, skin, mucous membranes, thus explaining alopecia, nausea, vomiting, etc. With immunotherapy, we change tactics. This treatment no longer attacks the cancer but re-arms the body to make it more powerful.
It stimulates the patient’s weakened immunity so that he can fight against his tumor himself. “Some people see their vital prognosis revolutionized by this new therapy which doubles, for many cancers, survival compared to traditional chemotherapy. For certain rectal tumors, immunotherapy is prescribed alone, before surgery. The tumor disappears: an incredible advance which questions us about the need to then resort to the scalpel. explain…
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