Immunotherapy will have been further developed, including personalized vaccines and combination of therapeutic vaccines with immune checkpoint inhibitors and targeted drugs.
In addition, adoptive T cell therapy and therapeutic vaccine combinations will have been developed and commercially established.
Treatments for many types of cancer can weaken your body's ability to fight off infections.
Studies show that having a history of cancer may also increase your risk of serious illness and death from COVID-19.
Many people with cancer died due to COVID-19 and other diseases during the pandemic.
The next advancement in radiation therapy is something known as carbon ion therapy.
Like proton beam therapy — with its ability to precisely target and destroy cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue — carbon ion therapy is currently used to treat cancers that may be resistant to proton therapy.