Immunotherapy, or biotherapy, stimulates the immune system to fight cancer. Henry Ford Health offers advanced immunotherapy treatments as part of our care for cancer patients.
Here you can find information on how immunotherapy works, what types of immunotherapy treatment we provide and more.
Our team of cancer specialists provide integrated care, personalized treatments (including the latest innovations in immunotherapy options) and support throughout your treatment.
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Precision medicine uses your genetic makeup and other unique factors to determine what chemotherapy (and/or other treatments) will be the most effective. We established the first and most comprehensive program in Michigan, creating treatment plans that cause fewer side effects, extended survival rates and more.
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We created the OncoStat clinic to provide patients with an extra level of care for urgent, non-emergency health needs related to side effects from cancer treatment, including chemotherapy.
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Find information below about how this treatment targets cancer and why it may be a good option for you.
Your body’s immune system — a network of cells and organs that identifies and defends against diseases — often does not recognize cancer as a foreign invader like bacteria or viruses. Even if it does, your immune system may be overpowered by the spread of the disease. We use immunotherapy to:
Immunotherapy can be given to you in multiple ways:
You may receive chemotherapy treatment in one of a few places:
Immune checkpoint inhibitors “unmask” cancer cells so the immune system can identify and attack them.
Monoclonal antibodies are specially designed immune system proteins that are injected into the body to seek out cancer cells and help destroy them.
Adoptive cell immunotherapy takes a patient’s own cells and treats them to better fight cancer in a lab setting. The cells are then reinfused into the patient’s body so they can find and attack cancer cells. In addition to killing cancer cells, this treatment may help protect you and result in long-term remission.
Adoptive cell immunotherapy includes chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T-cell) therapy, which genetically reprograms your T-cells (a type of immune cell) to find and attack cancer cells throughout the body.
Henry Ford Health is one of the few cancer centers in Michigan that is certified to administer this advanced treatment. It is designed to treat the following blood cancers:
Vaccines are an injectable treatment developed using dead cancer cells. After being administered, they stimulate the immune system to target living cancer cells.
Non-specific immunotherapies do not target cancer cells directly but instead provide a boost to the immune system’s overall capabilities.
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