Immune Cell Therapy

Surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy (anti-cancer drugs) are known as the three major cancer treatments. Thanks to medical research and development, these three major treatments have made great progress, but there is still a lot of pain associated with the treatment itself and its side effects. Cancer immunotherapy is now attracting attention as the ‘fourth cancer treatment’.
In fact, it is thought that cancer cells are constantly being generated in our bodies, even in healthy people. However, because there are also immune cells that attack cancer cells, we do not immediately become ill. It is often said that cancer occurs when the balance between cancer cells and immune cells is disrupted for various reasons, and the proliferation of cancer cells exceeds that of the immune cells.
Therefore, our “cancer immunotherapy” aims to suppress cancer cells by artificially increasing the number of immune cells that humans naturally possess and strengthening their function.
In cancer immunotherapy, we extract immune cells from the patient’s own blood, massively increase their numbers, activate them, strengthen their ability to attack, and then return them to the patient’s body. In other words, it is a treatment method that utilizes the “ability to heal oneself”. As we use the patient’s own cells, there are almost no side effects. In rare cases, there may be a fever or allergic symptoms, but the patient can receive treatment while maintaining their quality of life (QOL).