Foods to boost immune system during chemo

This page is about the immune system. It also tells you about the effects that cancer or treatments may have on the immune system.

And how some treatments can boost the immune system to help fight cancer.

Vitamins to boost immune system during chemotherapy

There is information about 

What the immune system does

Cancer and treatments may weaken immunity

The immune system can help to fight cancer

In built immune protection

Neutrophils

Acquired immunity

B cells and T cells

Cancer treatments that use the immune system

What the immune system does

The immune system protects the body against illness and infection that bacteria, viruses, fungi or parasites can cause.

It is a collection of reactions and responses that the body makes to damaged cells or infection. So it is sometimes called the immune response.

The immune system is important to people with cancer because:

• cancer can weaken the immune system
• cancer treatments might weaken the immune system
• the immune system may help to fight cancer

Cancer and treatments may weaken immunity

Cancer can weaken the immune system by spreading into the

best immune booster for cancer patients

best immune system booster for cancer patients