Hi, my Mum is possibly going to be offered Immunotherapy to treat bowel cancer. Wrong forum I know but I'm trying to find out what the side effects are like and I believe immunotherapy has been used for breast cancer for some time now?
My Mum is 81.
Thank you.
Sorry to hear about your mum’s situation. There are multiple different immunotherapy drugs working in very different ways. Do you know which drug they are proposing?

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