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Biotherapy

Biotherapy is a broad cancer-treatment category covering biological therapy, biologic response modifiers, immunotherapy, monoclonal antibodies, cytokines, cancer vaccines, cell therapies, oncolytic viruses, and related biologic approaches that change immune or tumor biology. Overview Biotherapy, also called biological therapy or biological response modifier therapy in older oncology literature, is a broad cancer-treatment category built around living systems and biologically derived substances.

Articles

Biological Therapy Agents

SEER Training | Medical / Staff

Biological therapy agents

SEER training page discussing biological therapy agents and the difficulty of classifying agents across chemotherapy, biologic therapy, and immunotherapy.

Biological therapy for cancer

Mayo Clinic | Public / Patient

Biological therapy

Mayo Clinic overview of biological therapy for cancer as treatment that helps the immune system kill cancer cells or targets cancer-cell signals.

Cancer immunotherapy comes of age

PMC / Journal of Clinical Investigation | Medical / Staff

Cancer immunotherapy review

Peer-reviewed review describing the scientific transition that allowed cancer immunotherapy to become a serious therapeutic strategy.

Immunotherapy to Treat Cancer

National Cancer Institute | Public / Patient

Biotherapy / immunotherapy

NCI overview of immunotherapy, noting that biological therapy uses substances made from living organisms to treat cancer.

Introduction to Biological Therapy

SEER Training | Medical / Staff

Biotherapy terminology

SEER training page defining this treatment area as biotherapy, immunotherapy, or biological response modifier therapy.

Monoclonal Antibodies to Treat Cancer

National Cancer Institute | Public / Patient

Monoclonal antibodies

NCI explanation of monoclonal antibodies as cancer treatments that can help the immune system recognize and destroy cancer cells.

Targeted Therapy to Treat Cancer

National Cancer Institute | Public / Patient

Targeted biologic therapy

NCI overview of targeted therapy, including monoclonal antibodies that attach to cancer-cell targets.

What Is Immunotherapy?

American Cancer Society | Public / Patient

Cancer immunotherapy

ACS patient overview of immunotherapy, immune recognition, biomarkers, goals, and safety considerations.

What is immunotherapy?

Cancer Research UK | Public / Patient

Cancer immunotherapy

Cancer Research UK overview describing immunotherapy and noting that some immunotherapies are also called targeted treatments or biological therapies.

What Is Immunotherapy?

Cancer Research Institute | Public / Patient

Cancer immunotherapy basics

CRI overview explaining immunotherapy, immune checkpoint inhibitors, bispecific antibodies, adoptive cell therapies, cytokines, oncolytic viruses, and cancer vaccines.
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