Cancer Immunotherapy: An Evidence-Based Overview and Implications for Practice

Immunotherapy is an approach to cancer treatment, management, and cure developed on the pathophysiologic foundations of harnessing a patient’s own immune system to fight diverse cancer types (Farkona, Diamandis, & Blasutig, 2016). Although the concept of immunotherapy has been researched for more than a century, discoveries have more recently led to the development of new classes of agents.