How Does Cancer Immunotherapy Work?

Stem cells found in the bone marrow are crucial for our health because they are needed to become new blood cells that sustain and protect our bodies. But when the transformation goes wrong, harmful mutations can cause the cells to start replicating without control -- a type of cancer known as leukemia.

Myeloma occurs as a result of changes in the genetic material within plasma cells. This animation explains what happens at the genetic level which causes myeloma to develop.

Across a wide variety of cancer types, a protein called KRAS can get hyperactivated and transmit an overload of unwanted growth signals to the cells, causing them to divide and form a tumor.