A post on dendritic cell therapy.
Personalized care is a new and emerging form of treatment many physicians are prescribing their patients. So, what is personalized care? The recipe for personalized care is a mixture of the highest quality, the most effective, and the most convenient care for all patients. But these seem to be the ingredients for all proper patient care, right? What separates personalized care is the tailored treatments for each patient that makes the recipe the highest quality, the most effective, and the most convenient care for them specifically.
What’s more personal than using your own body for treatment. Today, we’ll be talking about dendritic cell therapy for cancer as personalized care. Dendritic cells in the bloodstream work to identify threats to the body. These cells present threats to the immune system for the body to fight against. As personalized care, dendritic cell therapy uses a patient’s dendritic cells to train them to detect their cancerous cells. In lamest terms, the therapy should work by introducing your newly trained dendritic cells that can identify your cancer as a threat for your body to now work against.
In evaluating the value of new treatments, we gravitate towards weighing the cost and possible side effects. Research has determined dendritic cell vaccines to be generally safe with little severe side effects. Some report flu-like symptoms, including fevers and headaches, but these are actually considered a good sign of the vaccine effectively stimulating the immune system. In terms of cost, the therapy seems to cost around $20,000 per patient. I’ll let you weigh these things out and decide for yourself the value of personalized dendritic cell therapy.
Kalei is a Scientist 