TIL therapy is a type of cellular therapy that involves collecting specialized white blood cells called Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes from a tumor, expanding them in a laboratory, and then reinfusing them into the patient’s body to help attack cancer cells.
How does Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TIL) Therapy work?
Collection: Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes (TILs) are collected from the patient’s tumor, usually during a biopsy or surgical removal of the tumor.
Activation: In the laboratory, the TILs that naturally recognize and attack the patient’s cancer cells are identified and activated.
Expansion: These activated, cancer-fighting TILs are multiplied into the billions to create a large army, significantly increasing their cancer-fighting power.
Infusion: The expanded army of TILs is infused back into the patient’s bloodstream, similar to a blood transfusion.
Targeting Cancer: Once back in the body, these TILs travel to the tumor sites, seek out the cancer cells they already recognize, and target and destroy them more effectively.
Benefits
Personalized: Uses your own immune cells.
Effective: Especially useful for advanced cancers.
Durable Response: Can lead to long-term remission.
