Immunotherapy

What is immunotherapy?

Immunotherapy strengthens your immune system, which helps you fight illness, including cancer and autoimmune diseases. It is more precise, produces fewer side effects and can lead to longer remission periods than other cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation. Our team works with you, your doctors and care team to create a personalized plan to address your unique needs. 

How can immunotherapy work?

This specialized treatment allows our experts to pinpoint cancer cells with greater accuracy than ever before. We provide a broad spectrum of immunotherapies:

• Benign tumor immunotherapy: Targets non-cancerous, localized growths
• Bone marrow transplant (stem cell transplant): The specialist replaces abnormal bone marrow with healthy stem cells, helping the body produce blood cells needed to attack cancer cells
• Cellular therapies: Genetically modified T cells that target cancer cells administered by our immunotherapy experts in an approach called CAR-T Cell Therapy
• Drugs that target inflammation: Common medications include inhibitors, corticosteroids and antibiotics
• Gene therapy: Modifies a person’s genes

Conditions we treat

Immunotherapy is used for conditions like:

• Ankylosing spondylitis (AS): An arthritis that inflames the spine and can advance to serious conditions such as psoriatic arthritis
• Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA): A chronic inflammatory arthritis in children that harms their joints
• Psoriatic arthritis: An arthritis that inflames the joints and skin for people with psoriasis, a chronic autoimmune condition that scales a person’s skin
• Rheumatoid arthritis (RA): A chronic autoimmune condition that inflames joints, which can lead to joint damage and loss of function
• Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE): A complex chronic autoimmune disease that inflames and damages multiple organ systems, including the musculoskeletal system

You may be eligible for musculoskeletal disease immunotherapy if:

• Traditional treatments for your musculoskeletal disease have not been successful.
• You have biomarkers that indicate you benefit from immunotherapy.
• Your condition is caught in a stage where immunotherapy is effective.

Urologic disease immunotherapy

You may be eligible for urologic disease immunotherapy if:

• Your urologic cancer is advanced.
• Your body can stand treatment and its side effects.
• Traditional treatments for your urologic disease have not been successful.
• You have biomarkers that indicate you will benefit from immunotherapy.

Specific therapies:

• Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, which modifies T-cells to fight cancer
• Drugs that target cancer cells or strengthen the immune system to combat cancer
• Vaccines