Immunotherapy is a treatment that utilizes biological response modifiers to bolster the immune system's ability to combat cancer and other diseases. It represents an innovative approach to medicine, providing targeted therapies with fewer side effects compared to traditional treatments. Despite its effectiveness and growing use in cancer treatment, challenges such as variability among patient responses and high costs remain.

1. “What is now proved was once only imagined.”
-William Blake
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2. IMMUNOTHERAPY
The next magic bullet in medicine
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Presented by:
Anupam Singh Thapa
Deekshya Devkota
Pooja Rokaya
Sakar Pant

3. Scheme of Presentation
-Definition
-Immunotherapy as an innovation
-Introduction to immunotherapy
-Components
-Mechanism of action
-Uses and need of immunotherapy
-Risks and benefits
-Current situation
-Advantages of immunotherapy
-Possibilities and challenges
-Immunotherapy in Nepal 3

4. IMMUNOTHERAPY
• A type of therapy that employs biological response modifiers to
stimulate or suppress the immune system to help the body fight
cancer, infection, and other diseases.
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5. IMMUNOTHERAPY AS AN INNOVATION
• Every
disease or
infection is
directly or
indirectly
linked with
immunity.
• Solution to
diseases not
treated by
classical
therapies.
• Provides our
immune
system an
upper hand
against
cancer,
infection and
diseases.
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6. INTRODUCTION
By inducing, enhancing or suppressing an immune response, it
may elicit or suppress an immune reaction to treat various forms
of cancer, infection and disease.
Types of immunotherapy
• 1.Monoclonal antibodies
• 2.Non-specific immunotherapies
• 3.Specific immunization strategies
• 4.Oncolytic virus therapy
• 5.CAR T cell therapy 6

7. COMPONENTS OF IMMUNOTHERAPY
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Immunotherapy
Immunostimulants
Immunosuppressants

8. Immunostimulants
Interleukins
Immunomodulatory imide drugs(IMiDs)
cytokines and chemokines
Immunosuppressants
Blockers of cell adhesion
Cytotoxic agents
Inhibitors of gene expression
Cytokines inhibitors
Inhibitors of lymphocyte signaling
Inhibitors of specific immune cells
Inhibitors of co stimulation
Inhibitors of complement activation

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Mechanism of action of Cytokines and Chemokines

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Mechanism of Action of IMIDs

11. Mechanism of action of Cytotoxic agents
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Picture by:Anupam Singh Thapa

12. Gene expression inhibition
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15. USES OF IMMUNOTHERAPY
Cancer Infection Hypersensitivity
reactions
Autoimmune
diseases
Organ
transplantation
Immunodeficiency
diseases
Type I
diabetes
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16. NEED OF IMMUNOTHERAPY
•Less adverse effects that classical therapies like
chemotherapy, surgery and radiation
•Targeted therapy can be achieved in more efficiently
•A revolutionary treatment choice for many untreated
diseases
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17. Benefits
- Immunotherapy may work when
other treatments don’t
- It can help other cancer
treatments work better
-It causes fewer side effects than
other treatments
-The cancer may be less likely to
return
-Problem of antimicrobial
resistance can be overcome
Risks
•-Many adverse effects are associated
with immunotherapy
-Immunotherapy might take longer
time than other therapies
-Immunological tolerance
-Variability among patients
-Expensive
-Requires skilled manpower
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18. CURRENT SITUATION
• Immunotherapy in cancer is widely in use
• Increasing the immunogenicity of tumor cells so that they themselves lead
to a strong immune response
• Enhance the passive immunity against cancers by use of monoclonal
antibodies or adaptive cellular immunotherapy
• Stimulation of immune system by cancer vaccines examples active
immunization against cancer
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19. IMMUNOTHERAPY AND CANCER
• In the past decades, our knowledge about the relationship between
cancer and the immune system has increased considerably
• Offered substantial benefits for eradication of primary tumors, the
incidence of disease relapse is still a commonly encountered problem
• Cancer immunotherapy field is growing tremendously ; development
of cancer vaccines, CART-cell therapy and immune checkpoint
blockade therapy
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20. IMMUNOTHERAPY AND CANCER
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21. ADVANTAGES OF IMMUNOTHERAPY IN
CANCER PATIENTS
• Boon to cancer patients
• Suppresses and even cure almost all types of cancers
• Proven to cure malignant disease where classical therapies fail or are
contraindicated
• Flexibility of therapy according to complications of malignancy provided
• Offers the possibilities for long term cancer remission
• Better prognosis of cancer and higher survival rates
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22. FUTURE POSSIBILITIES
• Extensive use for various diseases , infections and malignancies
• Replacing the classical therapies by immunotherapy or combination
therapies
• Overcoming the problem of antimicrobial resistance
• As a prophylactic measure by vaccines
• More targeted approaches to enhance efficacy and reduce toxicities
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24. CHALLENGES
• Unpredictable efficacy
• Distinct clinical study designs needed to evaluate efficacy
• Expensive and requires highly skilled manpower and infrastructures
• Differential response rates due to diversity of individual immune
responses
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25. IMMUNOTHERAPY IN NEPAL
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• Mostly used for treatment of cancer
• IVIG in Guillain Barre syndrome

26. REFERENCES
 IMMUNOLOGY, Eight edition , David male , Jonathan Brostoff, David b Roth, Ivan M Roitt ,
immunotherapy for cancer (pg. 364-367) , immunotherapy for fungal infection(240-241),
immunotherapy for immediate hypersensitivity reactions ( 387-388), non-specific (pg. 300-
308)
 Basic and clinical pharmacology, 14th edition , Bertram G. Katzung, Immunomodulators,
therapeutic(pg. 996-998), immunotherapy (pg. 997-1001), immunosuppressive therapy(pg.
985-993)
 https://www.webmd.com
 https://connect.uclahealth.org
 https://www.the-scientist.com
 https://www.cancer.gov
 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

27. Picture References
• https://www.npr.org
• https://www.quantamagazine.org
• https://www.uq.edu.au
• https://www.aceabio.com
• https://www.mskcc.org
• https://www.the-scientist.com
• https://www.webmd.com
• https://www.aaaai.org
• ROBBINS AND COTRAN PATHOLOGIC BASIS OF DISEASE 9th edition
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