{"id":3623,"date":"2023-03-22T01:15:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T06:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/?p=3623"},"modified":"2023-03-24T07:07:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T12:07:22","slug":"use-your-body-to-fight-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/22\/use-your-body-to-fight-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Your Body to Fight Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional cancer treatment, such as chemotherapy and radiation, focuses on using external methods of destroying cancer cells. Immunotherapy focuses on using your body\u2019s own defenses to fight cancer. Issels\u00ae Immunotherapy offers several <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/treatment-summary\/issels-autologous-immunotherapy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancer vaccines<\/a> that are non-toxic and do not cause adverse effects, including the following.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prostate Cancer Vaccine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This cancer vaccine helps the immune system find and destroy cancerous cells in the prostate. Prostate cancer vaccines contain monocytes, cytokines, and other elements of the patient\u2019s immune system, which helps provide a more targeted immune response.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Autologous Dendritic Cell Cancer Vaccine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This cancer vaccine involves the use of dendritic cells, which play an important role in the immune system. These cells have a strong potential to trigger an immune response that effectively destroys tumors. This cancer vaccine contains tumor antigens, cytokines, and other elements of the patient\u2019s immune system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coley\u2019s Mixed Bacterial Vaccine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This cancer vaccine helps the patient\u2019s body produce interleukins, interferons, and other parts of the immune system that are needed to fight disease.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lymphokine-Activated Killer Cells<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This cancer vaccine contains LAK cells and interleukin-2 that help the patient\u2019s body fight cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Activated Natural Killer Cells<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This cancer vaccine contains NK cells and interleukin-2 to help the immune system fight cancer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses for Cancer Vaccines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/04\/researchers-learn-how-to-make-large-quantities-of-immune-cells-for-cancer-vaccines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cancer vaccines<\/a> can be used for a wide range of cancer types, including cancers that are typically difficult to treat using conventional methods. Since they use the patient\u2019s immune system to fight cancer, they don\u2019t come with a risk of side effects or adverse reactions as other cancer treatments do. Cancer vaccines are an important part of immunotherapy and provide a highly personalized approach to fighting cancer.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about immunotherapy as cancer treatment, please contact <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/contact-us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Issels\u00ae<\/a>. We can give you more detailed information on cancer vaccines and other therapies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional cancer treatment, such as chemotherapy and radiation, focuses on using external methods of destroying cancer cells. Immunotherapy focuses on using your body\u2019s own defenses to fight cancer. Issels\u00ae Immunotherapy offers several cancer vaccines that are non-toxic and do not cause adverse effects, including the following. Prostate Cancer Vaccine This cancer vaccine helps the immune &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/22\/use-your-body-to-fight-cancer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Use Your Body to Fight Cancer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,1],"tags":[224,676,531],"class_list":["post-3623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immunotherapy","category-uncategorized","tag-cancer-treatment","tag-cancer-vaccine","tag-immunotherapy-for-cancer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623","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=3623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3630,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3623\/revisions\/3630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/issels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}