Starting Immunotherapy: What to Expect

Lung cancer has long been considered one of the most challenging cancers to treat because it has usually spread by the time you’re diagnosed. When it spreads to other body parts, doctors refer to it as metastatic. The newest field of cancer medicine, called immunotherapy, is an effective treatment option for metastatic lung cancer.

Getting Started

This type of treatment helps your immune system better find and destroy cancer cells. The types that are approved for lung cancer right now are called checkpoint inhibitors. They bring cancer cells out of hiding so your body’s natural defense system can find and kill them. There are four FDA-approved immunotherapy drugs for NSCLC: atezolizumab (Tecentriq), durvalumab (Imfinzi), nivolumab (Opdivo), and pembrolizumab (Keytruda). Read the full article here>> https://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/immunotherapy-lung-19/lung-cancer-immunotherapy-what-to-expect