Allergens that doctors most commonly use in immunotherapy treatments for allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis, and allergic asthma include extracts of inhalant allergens from tree, grass, and weed pollens; mold spores; and dust mites.
The center is involved in treatment and research into kidney cancer including immunotherapy.
This treatment, called antigen-specific immunotherapy, specifically targets the immune system's T cells that cause the disease.
In fact initial attempts using tumor immunotherapy to combat cancer were made in the late 19th century by American Dr. William Coley.
Animal cancer tests have also proved confusing in developing immunotherapy (Williams 1982 ).