Linda, not quite enjoying a camel ride
2009
Our immune system
has evolved for hundreds of millions of years
- heck, billions of years if we’re related to stuff like blue-green
algae. It is a fearsome weapon against
would-be invaders: bacteria, virus, fungi, prions (look them up). The immune system keeps us on our feet and
going about our business, most of the time.
One thing it hasn’t been proof against until very recently is the
internal threat known as cancer. But
now, thanks to the genius of those many people in white coats, immune
treatments for many types of cancer have been developed. If you read this blog you’ll know what they
are. Immunotherapy has yet to be
successful against OVCA, but someday it will be. Have faith.
Bur, as you
might expect, there are problems. If you
start fiddling around with something as powerful and complicated as the human
immune system, you should expect unintended consequences - some quite nasty. And, of course, such is the case. Read below to catch up on observed side-effects
of various immunotherapies. They range
from trivial to catastrophic.
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