An innovative approach harnesses the body’s own immune system to combat cancer, providing a minimally invasive and highly effective option for patients.
Immunotherapy
Safer & Effective Alternative to Chemo and Radiation
An innovative approach harnesses the body’s own immune system to combat cancer, providing a minimally invasive and highly effective option for patients.
Most common side effects of chemotherapy can affect your daily life
You became bald (hair loss)
You feel extremely fatigue
You don’t have appetite
Nausea and vomiting
Skin rashes and itching
Discover alternative to traditional cancer treatment with Immunotherapy
Benefits of Immunotherapy
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Precise treatment
The immune system is precise, so it is possible for it to target cancer cells exclusively while preserving healthy cells.
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Minimised side-effect
It causes fewer side effects than other treatments. This is because it targets just your immune system and not all the cells in your body.
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Long-lasting results
The immune system can remember what cancer cells look like, so it can target and eliminate the cancer if it returns.
Benefits of Immunotherapy
01
Precise treatment
The immune system is precise, so it is possible for it to target cancer cells exclusively while preserving healthy cells.
02
Minimized side-effect
It causes fewer side effects than other treatments. This is because it targets just your immune system and not all the cells in your body.
03
Long-lasting results
The immune system can remember what cancer cells look like, so it can target and eliminate the cancer if it returns.
Types of Immunotherapy Treatments
The main forms of immunotherapy now being used to treat cancer include:
Immune checkpoint therapy
Helps cancer-fighting immune cells, called T cells, mount a longer-lasting response against cancer.
Adoptive cellular therapy
Increases the number and/or effectiveness of immune cells, usually T cells, which improves the power of the immune response against cancer.
Monoclonal antibodies
Which are man-made versions of immune system proteins. These drugs are designed to bind to specific targets in the body and causes an immune response that destroys cancer cells.
Cancer vaccines
Are substances put into the body to boost your immune system’s response to cancer cells. Vaccines do not directly prevent cancer but are used to treat specific cancers and prevent conditions that may cause cancer.
Our tailored approach combines two immunotherapies or pairs single immunotherapy with treatments like chemotherapy. These combination approaches are used to improve treatment.
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Types of Immunotherapy Treatments
The main forms of immunotherapy now being used to treat cancer include:
Immune checkpoint therapy
Helps cancer-fighting immune cells, called T cells, mount a longer-lasting response against cancer.
Adoptive cellular therapy
Increases the number and/or effectiveness of immune cells, usually T cells, which improves the power of the immune response against cancer.
Monoclonal antibodies
Which are man-made versions of immune system proteins. These drugs are designed to bind to specific targets in the body and causes an immune response that destroys cancer cells.
Cancer vaccines
Are substances put into the body to boost your immune system’s response to cancer cells. Vaccines do not directly prevent cancer but are used to treat specific cancers and prevent conditions that may cause cancer.
Our tailored approach combines two immunotherapies or pairs single immunotherapy with treatments like chemotherapy. These combination approaches are used to improve treatment.
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How Immunotherapy is Given?
Oral
In the form of pills or capsules
Intravenous
Treatment given through a vein
About Beacon Hospital
Beacon Hospital embarked on our journey as a cancer specialist hospital and eventually spread our wings to evolve into a multidisciplinary hospital. Our primary focus is to provide advanced medical equipment, specialist doctors and professional nursing care to our patients with love and empathy.
Our success in establishing and managing our first Cancer Excellence Centre has inspired us to develop seven other speciality centres, namely the Brain & Spine, Bone & Joint, Eye, Men’s Health & Urology, Women’s Health, Health Screening & Wellness and Clinical Research centres. These speciality centres are anchored by multidisciplinary medical specialists who have more than 30 years of individual experience, with many recognized as thought leaders in their own right, both nationally and internationally.
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As the leading cancer hospital in Malaysia, we are equipped with the expertise and necessary technology to deliver highly specialised treatment optimally.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What types of cancers can immunotherapy treat?
Immunotherapy has the potential to treat all cancers. Immunotherapy enhances the immune system’s ability to recognize, target, and eliminate cancer cells, wherever they are in the body, making it a potential universal answer to cancer. Immunotherapy may also be an effective treatment for patients with certain cancers that are resistant to prior treatment. Immunotherapy may be given alone or in combination with other cancer treatments.
Does immunotherapy have any side effects?
Immunotherapy has its side effects as well which affects people in different ways. The rare occurrence of side effects may include allergic reactions. Common side effects may include skin reactions at needle site such as: pain, swelling, redness, rash or itchiness. You may also experience flu-like symptoms eg. fever, chills, diarrhoea, nausea or vomiting, muscle or joint aches, fatigue or trouble breathing.
What is the difference between immunotherapy and chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy is a direct form of attack on rapidly-dividing cancer cells, but this can affect other rapidly dividing cells including normal cells. When patients respond, the treatment’s effects happen immediately. These direct effects of chemotherapy, however, last only as long as treatment continues.
Immunotherapy treats the patient’s immune system, activating a stronger immune response or teaching the immune system how to recognize and destroy cancer cells. Immunotherapy may take more time to have an effect, but those effects can persist long after treatment ceases.
How can I tell whether immunotherapy is working?
Immunotherapy treatments may take longer to produce detectable signs of tumor shrinkage compared to traditional therapies. Sometimes tumors may appear to grow on scans before getting smaller, but this apparent swelling may be caused by immune cells infiltrating and attacking the cancer. Many patients who experience this phenomenon, known as pseudoprogression, often report feeling better overall.
In certain cancer types, immune-related side effects may be linked with treatment success—specifically, melanoma patients who develop vitiligo (blotched loss of skin color)—but for the vast majority of patients, no definitive link has been established between side effects and immunotherapy’s effectiveness.
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