Cancer vaccines are different in that they can be used for both prevention and treatment, and use the body’s immune system to find and fight off cells that shouldn’t be there.
"Our goal is to help patients regain their sense of empowerment, to feel more like themselves again and to remember that it’s all about allowing their inner beauty to shine through."
The treatment involves extensive surgery to remove the cancer followed by delivering heated chemotherapy directly to the abdomen before the operation is completed.
Immunotherapy is different because it uses your own immune system to boost your defensive response to cancer, or to help it find and attack cancer cells.
Rectal cancer surgery is extremely complicated and is associated with significant side effects. This is due in part to the location of the rectum, the “last couple of inches” of the gastrointestinal tract.