Contents

• Introduction 2
• Immunotherapy 2
• Immunotherapy in Cancer 6
• Immunotherapy in Allergic Rhinitis 8
• Conclusion 10
• References 11

Description

Immunotherapy is that field of medicine, which deals with immune system of human beings. Human body has its own defense mechanism that protects the body and its organs against the attack viruses, bacteria, allergens etc that cause disease in the human body. The human body has intelligence that naturally protect and body and its organs from being attached by external microbes. While some of the treatments use chemicals or medicines to fight the disease causing viruses, bacteria etc., other treatments use the human immune system itself to fight the diseases. Such treatment that uses human immune system to fight diseases is called ‘immunotherapy’. This is also called biological therapy since the treatment uses human biology to fight diseases unlike other therapies that use medicines. Biological therapy or immunotherapy is a fairly recent trend in medical treatment. Immunotherapy is widely used to treat cancer even ahead of chemotherapy. The other disease where immunotherapy finds its use allergic rhinitis. The paper discusses immunotherapy in depth. The paper then discusses the two areas where immunotherapy is used such as cancer and allergic rhinitis.