Precision and Personalized Medicine

Precision Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy is a type of treatment that helps the body’s immune system fight cancer. Several kinds of immunotherapy, including immune checkpoint inhibitors, adoptive cell transfer, and therapeutic vaccines are either commercially available or in clinical development. To date, six immune checkpoint inhibitors have been approved by FDA for the treatment of eight types of cancer. One of the inhibitors has also been approved to treat any solid tumour that has a specific genetic feature. This was the first FDA approval of its kind and a major advance for precision cancer medicine, in which the molecular characteristics of a tumour are used to identify effective therapies.