Hi Debssss,

Thanks for your post. I am one of the nurses and Lucie our moderator thought it might be useful if we post something to you.

Immunotherapy is really an umbrella term that covers a range of different sorts of treatment many of which are in research. It’s not chemotherapy but it can be given alongside this treatment.  Examples are therapeutic cancer vaccines, monoclonal antibodies and a newer class of drugs called check point inhibitors. You could ask your team for the name of your specific immunotherapy.

Immunotherapy works by encouraging the immune system (the body's natural defence system) to attack cancer cells.  We have some information about immunotherapy on our website here.  There is also information here  that may be of interest.

I hope you get some support here on the forum. If no-one posts here you could try some other threads and please do get back to us if we can help.

I hope things go well.

Best wishes,

Celene