Immunotherapy is one of the newer options for cancer treatment. In this video, find out how immunotherapy helps treat advanced liver cancer, according to Elliot Newman, MD, Surgical Oncologist at Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell Health.
Dr. Newman is the Chief of Surgical Oncology at Lenox Hill Hospital, Northwell Health System, and a professor at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
References
American Cancer Society. (2019). How immunotherapy is used to treat cancer.
American Cancer Society. (2022). Immunotherapy for liver cancer.
Justiz Vaillant, A. A., et al. (2023). Immunotherapy. StatPearls.
Shahid, K., et al. (2019). Immunotherapy and targeted therapy—The new roadmap in cancer treatment. Annals of Translational Medicine.
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