• Immunotherapy Quiz

    Find out how much you know about this new approach to cancer treatment.
  • 1) How does immunotherapy for cancer work?

  • Answer: Immunotherapy boosts the immune system's ability to recognize and attack cancer cells.

     

  • 2) What types of cells are most active in fighting cancer?

  • Answer: T cells are the main soldiers of the immune system.

  • 3) Cancer can sometimes turn off natural immune responses against it.

  • Answer: True. Some tumors can hijack immune system regulation processes to turn off responses.

  • 4) Which of the following are examples of immunotherapy?

  • Answer: All of the above are types of immunotherapy

  • 5) Immune checkpoint inhibitors work by restoring T-cell activity.

  • Answer: True. Checkpoint inhibitors release the brakes on the immune system.

  • 6) Which of the following cancers do not respond well to checkpoint inhibitors?

  • Answer: Checkpoint inhibitors do not work well against breast cancer. They are approved for melanoma and lung cancer.

  • 7) CAR-T therapy reprograms a patient's T cells to fight cancer.

  • Answer: True. This treatment inserts an artificial receptor into T cells that helps them recognize cancer cells.

  • 8) Which of the following cancers respond well to CAR-T therapy

  • Answer: CAR-T therapy works against blood cancers like leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma.

  • 9) Can doctors easily predict who will respond well to immunotherapy?

  • Answer: No. Some biomarkers are associated with better response but don't predict how well an individual patient will respond.

  • 10) Which of the following can be side effects of immunotherapy?

  • Answer: All of the above. Immunotherapy can lead to an excessive immune response that harms healthy tissue.

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