Cancer Treatment with Dendritic cell-based cancer vaccine

Dendritic cell-based cancer vaccines are a type of immunotherapy in which the patient’s dendritic cells are used to make the immune system attack cancer cells. Dendritic cells are significant to the immune response because they show foreign substances to T cells, white blood cells crucial to the immune reaction. In making a vaccine, dendritic cells from the patient’s blood or bone marrow are taken and put in a lab where they are exposed to cancer antigens. The dendritic cells are then given back to the patient, where they can help the immune system fight cancer cells.

It is known that Dendritic Cell Therapy has been used for years to combat and control the cancerous process. Dendritic Cell therapy Treatment is used for treating several types of cancer such as glioma, melanoma, sarcoma, prostate, breast, ovarian, pancreatic cancer.

The revolutionary and promising cancer control therapy that is invented latest is Immunotherapy. Through this therapy the natural defenses or the immunity of the body is boosted to destroy, kill and control the cancer cells. Dendritic cell therapy in India is one such immunotherapy that is widely used. It has been proved to be very effective for treating tumors in advanced stages.

Dendritic cell-based cancer vaccines are still experimental and studied in clinical trials.