Anti-Aging & Wellness

Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphoid cells originating from a common lymphoid progenitor in the bone marrow. It is an important type of white blood cell that quickly responds to the non-specific foreign substances, which means when NK cells detect the foreign substances entering our body, it will take immediate action to kill it without going through the memorization whether such substances are encountered before or not. Therefore, NK cells can kill the pathogenic cells, foreign substances and can detect the infected cells such as viruses or cancer cells. If a person gets sick very often, we can conclude that the NK Cells amount of this person is low and the performance is not active, thus these make his immune system unable to fight against the foreign substances entering the body.

What are the advantages of natural killer cell therapy?

There are many benefits to NK cell therapy.

• NK cells don’t need to be genetically engineered to recognize cancer cells. This means that they are often faster to prepare. It only takes 24 hours to get them ready to infuse into the patient.
• NK cells are a treatment option for chemotherapy-resistant acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
• Compared to other forms of cancer treatment, such as chemotherapy, radiation, and even other immunotherapies, NK cell therapy does not cause many side effects. Patients tend to tolerate it well.