The difference between immunotherapy and targeted therapy includes therapeutic purpose and treatment means.
1. Therapeutic purpose:
(1) Immunotherapy: refers to the treatment of artificially and specifically inducing, enhancing and inhibiting the immune response of the body by targeting the body’s immune system.
(2) Targeted therapy: through the discovery of specific targets of disease development, such as diseased tissues, genes, proteins, enzymes, etc., the use of drugs for specific inactivation or intervention methods.
2. Therapeutic means:
(1) Immunotherapy: its treatment means include vaccines, cytokines and other molecular treatments, cellular vaccines, stem cell transplantation and other cellular treatments, glucocorticoids, cyclophosphamide, cyclosporine and other immunomodulators.
(2) Targeted therapy: including precise targeted external radiation therapy technology, targeted drugs and so on.
The specific choice of treatment means to treat the disease needs to be determined by the clinician according to the condition.