Carl June, MD takes us through the amazing history of immunotherapy at Penn Medicine.

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Immunotherapy is treatment that uses certain parts of the immune system to fight cancer or to lessen the side effects that may be caused by some cancer treatments.

The immune system is a network of cells and organs that work together to defend the body against attacks by foreign substances. This network is one of the body's main defenses against disease.

It works against disease, including cancer, in many ways. For example, the immune system may recognize the difference between healthy cells and cancer cells and work to eliminate those that become cancerous. Cancer may develop when the immune system breaks down or is not functioning adequately.

Penn's Abramson Cancer Center develops novel immune therapies for the treatment of cancer, including cancer vaccines, immune modulatory drugs, and cell-based therapies with state-of-the-art technologies such as gene therapy, monoclonal antibodies and T-cell engineering.

Current research focuses on patients with pancreatic cancer, melanoma, myeloma, leukemia and lymphoma.

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