Types of Immunotherapy for Prostate Cancer


Posted October 17, 2019 by Prostate-Seed-Ins

Dr. Echt explains the various types of immunotherapy for prostate cancer.

 
Irving, Texas – October 17, 2019 – It was recently discovered by researchers that cancers of the prostate might respond to immunotherapy. By using immunotherapy drugs, the immune responses can be triggered to fight cancer. The FDA has approved one type of immunotherapy for prostate cancer at the moment. The rest of the treatments are potentially available in clinical trials.

“Immunotherapy for prostate cancer is one way to use the immune system to fight cancer by training the immune cells to respond to cancer cells,” explains Dr. Echt. “The immune cells can kill cancerous cells that cause harm to the body. Your doctor can advise you to join a clinical trial if you are eligible.”

Here are some of the types of immunotherapy used in prostate cancer:

• Sipuleucel-T Immunotherapy–This is a cell-based vaccine for prostate cancer approved by the FDA. It is meant for patients with metastatic disease (with few or no symptoms) that resists hormone therapy. Sipuleucel-T immunotherapy is administered before or after chemotherapy. The immune cells are filtered and stimulated in the lab and reinfused into the body intravenously to drive the body's immune system to fight cancer cells.

• Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) – Pembrolizumab is an immune checkpoint inhibitor that blocks chemical signals which mask cancerous cells and activate the cancer-killing immune cells. It has been approved by the regulatory body (FDA) to treat solid tumors and prostate cancer with mutations in microsatellite instability (MSI) and mismatch repair genes (MMR) in the tumors. It is used as an alternative treatment option. Pembrolizumab is administered intravenously into patients to kill cancer cells.

“Immunotherapy for prostate cancer is showing promise, especially to metastatic cancer that is resistant to conventional treatments,” explains Dr. Echt. “Most of the treatments are still undergoing research and can only be used in clinical trials. Soon, more treatments will be developed to help improve prostate cancer outcomes.”

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Last Updated October 17, 2019