If you have cancer that’s hard to treat, immunotherapy can be a game-changer. Instead of using medicines to directly attack cancer cells, immunotherapy uses your own immune system to treat cancer.
Immunotherapy can work in different ways. For example, a type of immunotherapy medicine called a checkpoint inhibitor can help your immune system recognize and attack cancer cells. Or your healthcare team may use chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy, which changes your own immune cells in a lab so they can fight cancer.
If immunotherapy is part of your cancer treatment, it’s important to ask the right questions to understand how it might affect your health, schedule and daily life. Here’s a deeper look at what to ask your healthcare team.
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