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[Speicher]

Simply the difference is one is more medication based than the other.
Immunotherapy users the body's immune system to identify and destroy cancer cells. It comes in more than one type. It's a more recent treatment than chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy users medication to kill cancer cells, it attacks the cells life cycle.Depending on which drug depends at which point in the cells life cycle it attacks. Unlike Immunotherapy a side effect is suppressing the immune system. Which is why you have to be a bit careful when having it.

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/ab...cer-drugs-immunotherapy/what-is-immunotherapy
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/chemotherapy

Thank you for your explanation and the links. I have a blood test every four weeks prior to getting the next round of tablets. I presume they examine my red blood cell count.

 

[tom73]

Thank you for your explanation and the links. I have a blood test every four weeks prior to getting the next round of tablets. I presume they examine my red blood cell count.

I was the same normally they do FBC (full blood count) so inc white cells checking for infections, calcium , magnesium , glucose and full U&E's (Urea and Electrolytes) so checking kidney function.

 

[Speicher]

I was the same normally they do FBC (full blood count) so inc white cells checking for infections, calcium , magnesium , glucose and full U&E's (Urea and Electrolytes) so checking kidney function.

Thank you.

I have been told that I will have to continue this treatment for the rest of my life, as it is "incurable but controllable".