Immunotherapy--And How It Treats Cancer 

Cancer affects everyone, yet truly successful treatments or "cures" remain elusive. 

Recent development of tumor specific monoclonal antibodies, adoptive cell transfer techniques, and checkpoint inhibitors are all hailed as giant steps forward in cancer immunotherapy. 

How can you understand the way these methods work and whether they are the major breakthroughs they claim to be?

FitC member Jerry Kreider, a retired microbiology professor,  will explain at a layperson level how the new drugs change a patient's immune system.

Click Here for the Registration Form for Immunotherapy on Jan. 16.  Interested in overviews of the latest medical science?
Dr.Kreider will cover a different topic,  the latest gene therapy, on Jan. 30. Used primarily for cance,  immunotherapy affects a patient's immune system.Gene therapy is used primarily for blood diseases and maybe changes, a patient's genes.
 Tuesday, Jan. 30, 1-2:15.
Click here to register for the Jan. 30 presentation on gene therapy.

Click on the above blue rectangle for the Jan. 16 immunotherapy presentation.