[ConservativeMind]

It continues to look like the best approach to cancer treatment is to get immunotherapy first, followed by surgery, radiation, or chemo.

Having a target for your cells to attack appears necessary, rather than having the immunotherapy later, when your body has a much harder time finding the bad thing it is supposed to be attacking.

[ConservativeMind]

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[vetvetdoug]

Thirty years ago we were using BCG injected directly into sarcoid tumors of horses and the adjuvant stimulated immunity and removal of the sarcoids. BCG and cimetidine removed melanomas in horses also. Koch reported in the 1890’s that an adjuvant such as BCG stimulated immunity and removed tumors in some cases. I performed a literature review on BCG for a molecular virology class that found that BCG was used effectively by German microbiologists in the 1890’s.

[rsobin]

Some of these new cancer treatments are superior to chemotherapy alone but they still tend the be non-specific.