Shailender Bhatia, MD, on Immunotherapy for Nonmelanoma Skin Cancers
SCCA's Shailender Bhatia, MD, discussed the potential successful use of immunotherapy in the treatment of nonmelanoma skin cancers.
Immunotherapy
A type of therapy that uses substances to stimulate or suppress the immune system to help the body fight cancer, infection and other diseases.
A therapy that uses substances to stimulate or suppress the immune system to help the body fight cancer, infection and other diseases. Some immunotherapies only target certain cells of the immune system. Others affect the immune system in a general way. Types of immunotherapy include cytokines, vaccines, bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) and some monoclonal antibodies.
