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Here’s how the immunotherapy drug (Keytruda) works.
“Cancer researchers have been almost giddy in the last couple of years about the potential of drugs like Keytruda, which seem to solve a century-old mystery of how cancerous cells manage to evade the body’s immune system.
The answer is that tumors activate brakes on the immune system, preventing it from attacking them. Keytruda is the first drug approved that inhibits the action of one of those brakes, a protein known as PD-1, or programmed death receptor 1.
This general approach might work for many types of cancer, though so far the main successes in clinical trials have come against the deadly skin cancer melanoma, lung cancer and kidney cancer.”
Hi Lainey,
Here’s how the immunotherapy drug (Keytruda) works.“Cancer researchers have been almost giddy in the last couple of years about the potential of drugs like Keytruda, which seem to solve a century-old mystery of how cancerous cells manage to evade the body’s immune system.
The answer is that tumors activate brakes on the immune system, preventing it from attacking them. Keytruda is the first drug approved that inhibits the action of one of those brakes, a protein known as PD-1, or programmed death receptor 1.
This general approach might work for many types of cancer, though so far the main successes in clinical trials have come against the deadly skin cancer melanoma, lung cancer and kidney cancer.”
As for my mom, she has absolutely NO side effects. It’s amazing! She feels fine, has an appetite, and goes about her normal everyday life. She has treatment at UCSF every other week. It’s a 30 minute transfusion, so it’s extremely quick and painless. This is the wave of the future for cancer treatments. Rather than flooding your body with poisons, it boosts your own immune system and your healthy cells attack the cancer cells. It’s incredible. We just hope and pray that it continues to shrink her tumors.
We are so thankful and we want to spread the word. Hoping other CC patients are able to get this drug, as it has been approved by the FDA.
Hi Marion! and Julie,
I posted my note under the link that you provided.As for my mom, she has absolutely NO side effects. It’s amazing! She feels fine, has an appetite, and goes about her normal everyday life. She has treatment at UCSF every other week. It’s a 30 minute transfusion, so it’s extremely quick and painless. This is the wave of the future for cancer treatments. Rather than flooding your body with poisons, it boosts your own immune system and your healthy cells attack the cancer cells. It’s incredible. We just hope and pray that it continues to shrink her tumors.
We are so thankful and we want to spread the word. Hoping other CC patients are able to get this drug, as it has been approved by the FDA.
