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Immune checkpoint inhibitors are one of several types of immunotherapy. Other forms include:
- Adoptive cellular therapies such as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies, are immune cells taken from a patient or healthy donor and modified to boost their ability to eliminate cancer.
- Targeted antibodies are treatments that mimic naturally occurring antibodies from our immune system.
- Cancer vaccines train the body to recognize specific features of cancer and stimulate an immune response.
- Oncolytic viruses use engineered viruses to infect and destroy cancer cells.
- Immune system modulators, or cytokine therapies, use immune signaling compounds to stimulate immune activity.