Activation of T-cells of the body's immune system to fight tumor cells demonstrates a high effect and long-term remissions in 10-15% of patients.

For several decades, doctors have resorted to prescribing chemotherapy and radiation therapy to treat cancer.. Such treatment was very difficult for patients, because strong toxic drugs often had a detrimental effect on healthy cells of the body, causing intoxication and serious complications, and the treatment itself was accompanied by numerous side effects, such as pain, weakness, nausea, weight loss and hair loss..

A number of recent clinical trials have completely turned the approach to fighting cancer, because it turned out that all the unpleasant consequences of even severe forms of treatment can be avoided.. The turning point in the world of oncology was the development of a new approach to treatment - immunotherapy.

Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer and Research Fellow of the Cancer Society in the United States, is confident that this approach will soon take its rightful place in the treatment of cancer.. More than 800 clinical trials are already underway and more than 30 drugs are being developed for immunotherapy, which has proven to be much more effective than chemotherapy.

According to William Nelson, director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University Cancer Department, long-term remissions are observed in 10-15% of patients, and this is far from the limit..

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