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Immunotherapy: Boosting the Body's Immune Response to Fight Cancer   What exactly is immunotherapy and how does it work to fight disease? Immunotherapy is a type of treatment that helps your immune system fight diseases, especially cancer. It works by either stimulating your own immune system to work harder or smarter to attack cancer cells, or by giving your immune system components, like man-made proteins, to help it do its job.   What types of cancers can be treated with immunotherapy? Immunotherapy is being used to treat a growing list of cancers, including melanoma, lung cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, lymphoma, leukemia, and many others. The specific types of cancer that respond to immunotherapy vary depending on the kind of immunotherapy used. How is immunotherapy administered to patients? Immunotherapy can be given in several ways, including intravenously (through a vein), orally (as a pill), topically (as a cream), or intravesically (directly int...