What Is Immunotherapy?

[MUSIC PLAYING] So immunotherapy is a new technique that has been looked at in terms of, it boosts their own immune cells. So the idea is you target a specific protein in the immune system and that will actually enhance the immune cells in your body to go ahead and attack the mesothelioma or cancer cells, specifically. So we normally have normal immune cells that are normally protecting us from infection or for other things, but this, just based on certain pathways that we know are active in cancer, then you boost that activity so that the immune cells will actively try to attack and engulf or eat, as you will, the cancer cells. And so that's really where immunotherapy is going to be beneficial because it's thought to be a, quote unquote, "more natural way," and not necessarily like chemotherapy, where you're actually giving a toxic substance that will kill and attack and does not have a preference for mesothelioma cells. It has a preference for all cells. And so I think that's where immunotherapy is going to be a nice addition.