Skin cancer treatment with immunotherapy

Skin cancer treatment with immunotherapy is oriented to boost the patient’s immune system and help to increase its ability to fight the patient’s tumor. Nowadays, patients have access to many various methods of immunotherapy. Still, not all of them will be equally effective for all patients. So, doctors often prescribe various lab tests to evaluate the efficiency of immune therapy and predict any possible adverse effects. Sometimes, skin cancer cells also might need to be tested to detect certain genetic mutations that can significantly affect further treatment. In many cases, the most basic yet effective method of immune therapy might look like chemotherapy at first glance. Various medication prescribes to the patient and delivered via intravenous injections or rarely as pills. A single procedure of immune therapy might take up to a few hours, and the patient might need to remain inside the hospital for some short time after the treatment session to ensure they are okay and can go home. Between procedures, patients usually get some time to rest (up to a few weeks). Most patients require at least a few courses of immune therapy before getting any significant results.