Cancer Immunotherapy

Abstract

Overview The basic principles that guide cancer immunology are immune surveillance, immune editing, and immune tolerance. Rapid increase in the knowledge of mechanistic details of these basic principles has led to clinical success in the treatment of cancer. In this article, we discuss the basic principles and recent advances in the field of basic and clinical immunotherapy that has given credence to the long‐held belief that the immune system can be used to treat cancer. Further, we also focus on the challenges associated with immunotherapies in the clinic, the role of combining different types of immunotherapies and other therapeutic modalities in the treatment of cancer.