Immunotherapy for Cervical Cancer
Immunotherapy for cervical cancer may be the new approach that would work for many patients.
Immunotherapy involves boosting the body’s natural immune system so it can successfully fight off cancerous tumors. This new and experimental treatment method seems to have worked well for Arrica Wallace, a patient from Kansas, whose cervical cancer was too advanced for chemotherapy and radiation. After immunotherapy, she is cancer-free.
In a pilot study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the tumors of two out of nine women disappeared with immune therapy, and a year later are still cancer-free. Doctors are now trying this treatment for other cancers caused by HPV (human papillomavirus), and hope that it can be used against diseases caused by other viruses as well. More….
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