The available and traditional treatment options for most cancers have been chemotherapy, radiation, targeted therapy, and surgery. All of which have had variable success rates and different side effects depending on the cancer and the modality used. The budding field of immunotherapy has the potential to enhance the body’s own defense mechanism against cancer cells. Immunotherapies restore the ability of the immune system to eliminate the cancer cells by either activating the immune response directly or by getting rid of inhibiting mechanisms by tumors which block immune function. Ideally immunotherapies would work by boosting the immune system to recognize the irregular cells and have the ability to defend against the cancer cells and its
