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Medical Oncology

Immunotherapy

This type of cancer treatment helps your immune system in the fight against cancer. The immune system consists of organs and tissues of the lymph system and white blood cells. It assists your body in fighting infections and other diseases. This is a type of biological therapy as it utilises material from living organisms to treat cancer. Some kinds of immunotherapy combine with immune cells to help them in killing cancerous cells and other kinds help the immune system in destroying cancerous cells.