Cancers We Treat with Immunotherapy
Your immune system is your body’s first-line defense against disease. Immunotherapy uses that natural process to target metastatic cancer — cancer that has spread throughout your body. Drugs stimulate your immune system to help it work harder and smarter in fighting cancers.
- Bladder cancer
- Esophageal cancer
- Head and neck cancer
- High-risk breast cancers
- Kidney cancer
- Leukemia
- Liver cancer
- Lung cancer
- Lymphoma
- Melanoma
- Mesothelioma
- Multiple Myeloma
Types of Immunotherapy We Provide
Immunotherapy works by training your immune system to detect and kill cancer cells and ramping up production of more cancer-fighting cells. There are many different types of immunotherapy drugs.
- Cancer vaccines
- Checkpoint inhibitors
- Cytokine therapy
- Immune system modulators
- Monoclonal antibodies
- Oncolytic viruses
- T-cell transfer therapy
Immunotherapy Tests We Run
Testing helps your oncologist determine immunotherapy treatments. Blood tests help identify genetic markers, measure changes in the cancer and predict the effectiveness or resistance to immunotherapy. Throughout treatment, you may have:
- Liquid biopsy tests to identify cancers and treatments
- PD-L1 protein tests to indicate immune system suppression
- scRNA-seq tests for T-cell function
- Tumor mutational burden tests to measure cancer cells
Immunotherapy Physicians & Providers
Find Immunotherapy care at an Iowa Clinic location nearest to you.
Hematology Oncology providers are located at our West Des Moines campus.
