Dendritic Cell Therapy: A Leeway for Cancer Treatment

The body’s natural defense mechanism is utilized by the dendritic cell therapy in order to heal cancer. This type of therapy is not insidious and its adverse effects are negligible. The immune system serves as the target of dendritic cell therapy.

One client of this kind of therapy is a Ghaziabad resident Aruna Tyagi, a forty-four year old woman who developed malignant laceration in her chest wall in 2007. She received an operation because of this and was later advised to undergo chemotherapy because of fast spreading cancer. Despite her operations for three times within eighteen months to remove the malignant tumors and receiving many sessions of chemotherapy and radiation, she still suffered from relapses of cancer.

After Tyagi’s third operation, she decided to undergo a dendritic cell therapy instead of a chemotherapy. She received this therapy for almost two years and when she was scanned in 2009, the vestiges of active lesions in her body are gone. The therapy successfully helped in her recovery and she strongly recommended dendritic therapy for sufferers of cancer. According to her, she did not suffer the side effects while undergoing this therapy as compared to the afflictions she received from the side effects of chemotherapy.

Dendritic cells are blood cells that are found in the bloodstream of humans. These cells serve as immune cells and are only present in small numbers. They have the capacity for identification of cancer cells, processing these into bits and jumpstarting the immune response through bringing the foreign substance into the notice of the rest of the immune system. Through this conveyance, the stimulated immune system has now the capacity for circulation and destruction of these cancer cells.

Through dendtric cell therapy, the immature dendritic cells of the patient are taken out and transmitted to the mature dendritic cells based on the type of cancer the patient is enduring.