Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer Treatment

immunotherapy: a future treatment modality for breast cancer?

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Immunotherapy for breast cancer.

Future of Triple Negative Breast Cancer: Can Immunotherapy Treat This Deadly Subtype of Breast Cancer?

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC): challenges and solutions via the immune cells TNBC is one of the most complicated types of breast cancer to treat. It is generally diagnosed based on the absence of three receptors: estrogen, progesterone, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and is thus defined as a triple negative. TNBC is often more aggressive with lower survival rates...

Dendritic Cell Immunotherapy, the Next Step in Cancer Treatment

Cancer immunotherapy has gained a lot of interest over the past few years due to the success of immune checkpoint inhibitors in treating cancer (1, 2). Immune checkpoint inhibitors, such as monoclonal antibodies against cytotoxic T-lymphocyte–associated antigen 4 (CTLA-4) and programmed death 1 (PD-1), have been shown to increase survival of patients with advanced cancers (1, 2). These in...

Breast Cancer Immunotherapy.

Although unlikely to replace current standard of care therapies, immunotherapy is emerging as a critical component of breast cancer treatment. Despite initial setbacks, clinical benefit is now evident through immunomodulation and cancer vaccines. Over the past decade, passive immunotherapeutic strategies such as anti-HER2 monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy have significantly improved the prognos...

Breast cancer immunotherapy.

Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths in women worldwide. Although tumorectomy, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and hormone replacement therapy have been used for the treatment of breast cancer, there is no effective therapy for patients with invasive and metastatic breast cancer. Immunotherapy may be proved effective in treating patients with advanced breast cancer. Breast cance...