Kidney Cancer: How immunotherapy can help you

Immunotherapy’s ability to unlock and boost your body’s immune defences holds promise for several cancers. One of them is cancer of the kidney or renal cell carcinoma.

“In various ways, immunotherapy drugs allow a kidney cancer patient’s immune system to work better to fight the tumour,” says Brian Rini, MD, a genitourinary cancer specialist. This allows some patients to live longer.