Cancer Vaccine

Lung cancer is caused by an abnormal and uncontrolled multiplication of cells in the lungs. The cells keep multiplying continuously until they form a tumor, resulting in disruptions of lung function.

Normally our body has white blood cells that are part of the immune system that destroy foreign cells, such as diseased cells, bacterial cells and viral cells. However, certain kinds of cancer cells have a mechanism that can protect themselves from being destroyed by white blood cells. Therefore, immunotherapy has been discovered to treat cancer by inhibiting that mechanism and boosting the immune system of the body or white blood cells to fight gainst cancer cells.

Cancer diseases have the highest fatality rate among Thais. The number of cancer patients is increasing each year with a 90% cause of the disease arising from external factors and lifestyles that raise the risk of cancer. Certain food consumptions, stress, viral infections, smokes, consumption of alcohol are some of the factors.  Cancer treatment has therefore been developed to boost its efficacy on patients while reducing the side effects of the drugs to be as low as possible.