Cancer immunotherapy is a potential new treatment for cancer

This section describes the potential of cancer immunotherapy as a new treatment to fight tumors. Cancer immunotherapy aims at stimulating and enhancing the natural immune response to tumor cells.

This can be achieved either by:

• Stimulating the whole immune system, or
• passively administering antibodies (passive immunotherapy), or
• actively inducing an immune response against specific antigens found on tumor cells (active immunotherapy)

ASCI (or Antigen-Specific Cancer Immunotherapeutics) is an immunotherapy approach that aims at educating the patients’ own immune system to fight the tumor.