{"id":2496,"date":"2016-10-04T03:09:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T08:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2016-09-14T19:13:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T00:13:06","slug":"immunotherapy-a-doctors-fundamental-change-in-treating-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/04\/immunotherapy-a-doctors-fundamental-change-in-treating-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Immunotherapy: A Doctor&#8217;s Fundamental Change in Treating Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2454\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2454\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2454 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Depositphotos_14563449_s-2015-250x150.jpg\" alt=\"Using the Body to Fight Cancer\" width=\"250\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Using the Body to Fight Cancer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Traditional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation are directed at fighting tumors head-on. <a href=\"http:\/\/issels.com\">Immunotherapy for cancer<\/a>, which is aimed at making the body&#8217;s immune system more effective against tumors, has created a fundamental change in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/07\/31\/health\/harnessing-the-immune-system-to-fight-cancer.html?_r=1\">the way doctors approach treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Long-Held &#8220;Medical Dream&#8221; Becomes Reality<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the earliest attempts at immunotherapy date back more than 100 years, it presented too much of a puzzle to doctors. As a result, radiation and chemotherapy surpassed immunotherapy as the treatments of choice for cancer.<\/p>\n<p>As modern research with immunotherapy uncovered more effective methods with documented track records, medical and financial floodgates have opened. <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/30\/dendritic-cell-therapy-has-been-funded-by-the-american-cancer-society\/\">Charitable organizations<\/a>, pharmaceutical companies and the federal government are dedicating billions of dollars to fund hundreds of trials involving various treatments on every type of cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boosting the Body&#8217;s Own Immune System<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While there is still much to learn, researchers are focusing primarily on two types of immunotherapy for cancer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the first method, a doctor removes some of the patient&#8217;s own immune cells and creates <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/09\/whats-happening-in-immunotherapy-research-part-one\/\">genetic alterations<\/a> enabling them to attack cancer cells, at which point they are added back to the bloodstream.<\/li>\n<li>The second method makes use of drugs known as <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/16\/immune-checkpoint-inhibitors-the-role-they-play-in-cancer-immunotherapy\/\">checkpoint inhibitors<\/a>, which block the mechanism used by cancer cells to evade detection and attack by the immune system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Issels\u00ae: Leading the Way in Immunotherapy for Cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our immunotherapy center has continued the groundbreaking work of our founder, Dr. Josef M. Issels, using state-of-the-art therapies to treat patients with all forms of cancer. <a href=\"http:\/\/66.135.32.155\/issels\/Questionnaire\/request-issels-info.aspx\">Contact us<\/a> today to learn more about our non-toxic treatments such as cancer vaccines and NK cells.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation are directed at fighting tumors head-on. Immunotherapy for cancer, which is aimed at making the body&#8217;s immune system more effective against tumors, has created a fundamental change in the way doctors approach treatment. A Long-Held &#8220;Medical Dream&#8221; Becomes Reality While the earliest attempts at immunotherapy date back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/04\/immunotherapy-a-doctors-fundamental-change-in-treating-cancer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Immunotherapy: A Doctor&#8217;s Fundamental Change in Treating Cancer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,216,538],"tags":[304,359,539,252,531],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancer-research","category-immunotherapy","category-immunotherapy-for-cancer","tag-advancement-in-cancer-treatment","tag-building-your-immune-system","tag-cancer-immunotherapy","tag-cancer-research-advancement","tag-immunotherapy-for-cancer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2497,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}