Abstract: Increasing knowledge has increased awareness of roles of immunotherapy in cancer treatment. Such immunomodulation targeting specific immunopathways has risen the understandings that more and more methods could be incorporated into the clinical applications. The immunotherapy eliciting specific cellular immune response against cancer cells might result in tumor cell lysis and subsequently enhancing ability of antigen presenting cells and shows synergism with the cytotoxicity of chemotherapy.

Key words: cancer, immunotherapy, chemotherapy