Immunotherapy with Dendritic cells a welcome change to cancer treatment

Prof. Dr. Frank Gansuage has worked closely with Professor Ralph Steinmann also known as “Father of modern immunotherapy” for the contribution in world of medicines and therefore awarded the Nobel prize for medicine in 2011 and deserves special mention effective cancer treatments with Dendritic cells therapy which has increasingly became popular worldwide and  approved by many developed countries.

Cancer is a lethal disease which is swallowing an entire population. In India, approximately 4.5 lakh people are living with the disease and 7 lakh new cases being registered yearly and around 5,56,400 deaths are known to be cancer related. Alarmingly, around 71 percent of all cancer related deaths are happening in the age group between 30 to 69 years. Anyhow, in all these years, with extensive research and medical improvement, cancer treatment has improved by leaps and bounds. Among all those way outs, cancer immunotherapy with dendritic cells has been an effective treatment which uses certain parts of a person's immune system to fight cancer. In other words, this mode requires stimulating an individual's immune system to work harder or smarter to attack cancer cells.

Immunotherapy with dendritic cells has been an effective treatment in case of skin, kidney, breast, pancreatic, colon, ovarian and prostrates cancers. With LANEX-DC, better technology, technique and scientists - there is an appreciable increase in the quality of life, helping in prolonging the life span controlling and abolition of symptoms by facilitating individuals with a routine life. In contrast, treatment with dendritic cells is a much gentler way than traditional chemotherapy and radiation. The treatment in case of immunotherapy with Dendritic cells calls for only 1 cycle and it is like injecting immunity medicine into a body. The mode of treatment in case of immunotherapy with Dendritic cells calls for vaccination in 6 cycles. This facility provides a special type of vaccination required to treat any type of cancer except blood cancer. Here a unique vaccination which is made from patient's blood and infused in the body, boosting the immunity. Incidentally, a person can take the vaccination while taking chemotherapy and it will averse the side effects and subsequently helps a patient live a routine life.

Be it monoclonal antibodies or adoptive cell transfer or cytokines, vaccines or BCG - the feedback in indeed encouraging from cancer patients who have opted immunotherapy. But Dendritic immunotherapy is the one which is considered to be the most efficient. And the treatment doesn't require oral or topical or intravesical way for treatment. Nevertheless, one can definitely say the immunotherapy with Dendritic cells has opened a new domain of cancer treatment which is effective as well as affordable in true sense of the term.