Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy is a type of treatment that helps a person's own immune system find and destroy cancer cells more effectively. Your immune system helps the body fight off cancer, infections and other diseases.
What You Need to Know
There are several types of immunotherapy used to treat cancer. To help prevent the immune system from attacking normal cells in the body, it uses “checkpoint” proteins, which act like on and off switches to ignite an immune response. Checkpoint inhibitors are medications used to treat some people with NSCLC and include PD-1/PD-L1 and CTLA-4 inhibitors.
In the drop-down below, you will find some of the most common side effects associated with immunotherapy, along with ways to manage and treat these side effects.
