Last Year more than 80,00,000* lives were lost due to cancer.
Every moment counts in this fight against cancer and these troubling numbers are a constant reminder that new treatment approaches are very desperately needed.
Till now there have been three standard methods of treatment for cancer:
- Surgery
- Chemotherapy
- Radiation therapy
In all the above mentioned treatments its basically the doctor's who decide as to ‘what is the best course of action’ based on a few considerations like - What is the type of Cancer? How far it has spread? and other important factors like age and general health. However it is always the patient, who has to take the final decision. But now we would like to present to you the most innovative and effective forms of treatment called DenvaxTM (based on Immunotherapy or Biological Therapy)
Frequently asked questions
- What happens in Cancer?
- What is Biological Therapy?
- How is Biological Therapy different from Chemotherapy?
- How many types of Biological Therapies are there?
- What is Denvax (Dendritic cell therapy)?
- What are Dendritic cells and how are they useful?
- What kind of cancers can be treated by Denvax therapy?
- At what cancer stage should a patient consider Denvax therapy?
- Who will benefit most from the therapy?
- What are the side effects of Denvax?
- What happens in Cancer?
- In cancer, the immune system fails; cells of the immune system fail to recognize the cancer cells. The immune system doesn't "see" tumors as dangerous or foreign, and doesn't mount a strong attack against them. Another reason tumors may not stimulate an immune response is that the cancer cells develop ways to escape the immune system.
- What is Biological Therapy?
- It is a treatment that boosts a patient's immune system. It can help fight cancer or help control side effects from treatments like chemotherapy
- How is Biological Therapy different from Chemotherapy?
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Biological Therapy helps in rebuilding & strengthening the immune system to fight cancer while Chemotherapy attacks the cancer cells directly.
- How many types of Biological Therapies are there?
- There are many different Types of Biological Therapies used in cancer treatment. These most commonly involve Biological response modifiers (BRMs) which change the way the body's immune system tackles with cancer cells. They are produced in laboratory and administered to patients.
BRMs include interferons, interleukins, colony-stimulating factors, monoclonal antibodies, cytokine and vaccine therapy. - What is Denvax (Dendritic cell therapy)?
- Cancer occurs because the immune system has failed. Numerous researches now prove that this defect in the immune system can be corrected outside the body (ex vivo technology).
Denvax is dendritic cell therapy, which involves the extraction of mononuclear (CD14+) cells from the patient's own blood, transformation of these cells into cancer-fighting cells and giving back to the patient. - What are Dendritic cells and how are they useful?
- Dendritic cells are blood cells present in every person's bloodstream. They function as an immune cell but are present in small numbers. They identify cancer cells, process them into bits, and jumpstart the immune response by bringing the foreign substance to the attention of the rest of the immune system (T cells). The activated immune system is then able to circulate throughout the body and destroy the cancer cells.
- What kind of cancers can be treated by Denvax therapy?
- This includes solid tumors mainly, including cancers of the bladder, bone, brain, breast, head & neck, gallbladder, kidney, liver, lung, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, ovarian, pancreatic, prostate, stomach, and testicular.
- At what cancer stage should a patient consider Denvax therapy?
- A patient may consider Denvax therapy when:
- the patient is free of disease but at a risk of recurrence
- palliation is required
- patient requires immune-therapy in addition to ongoing chemo/radiation therapy
- Who will benefit most from the therapy?
- Denvax works best in patients
- who opt early during the disease progression;
- who opt immediately after surgery, when tumor load is minimal.
- What are the side effects of Denvax?
- We are a team of medical professionals, devoted to cancer care. Institute of Cellular Therapies (ICT) was established in the year 2006 and since then is actively engaged in administering safe and effective Dendritic Cell treatment to numerous cancer patients. The idea is to make the treatment affordable and accessible to a large patient population.
"Greater number of patients should be benefited from high quality meaningful research."