Immunotherapy for ovarian cancer

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Immunotherapy helps to strengthen or restore the immune system's ability to fight cancer. This works to kill cancer cells and stop cancer cells from growing and spreading.

Immunotherapy is rarely used to treat ovarian cancer. It’s also not typically given for fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer. These cancers start in the same type of tissue as most ovarian cancers and are staged and treated the same way. But they are much rarer cancers.

Researchers are continuing to look at how immunotherapy can be used to treat ovarian, fallopian tube and primary peritoneal cancers. You may have immunotherapy to treat advanced cancer that doesn't respond to other treatments or comes back (recurs) after treatment. If you have immunotherapy, your healthcare team will use what they know about the cancer and about your health to plan the drugs, doses and schedules.

Expert review and references

  • Laurie Elit, MD, MSc, FRCSC

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