Cancer Biology and Therapeutics

Cancer Immunotherapy & Stem Cell Therapy

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Cancer Immunotherapy is the application of the Immune System to treat cancer. Immunotherapies can be classified as active, passive or hybrid. These access deed the fact that cancer cells frequently have molecules on their surface that can be identify by the immune system, known as tumor-associated antigens, they are often proteins or other Macromolecules.

Stem-cell therapy is the application of stem cells to treat or prevent a disease or condition. Bone marrow transplant is the most extensively used stem-cell therapy, but some therapies derived from Umbilical Cord Blood are also in use.  

Stem-cell therapy has become issue following developments such as the ability of scientists to isolate and culture embryonic stem cells, to create stem cells using somatic cell nuclear transfer and their use of techniques to create pluripotent stem cells. This issue is often related to abortion politics and to human cloning. Additionally, efforts to market treatments based on transplant of stored umbilical cord blood.