The questions patients ask most often — about the method, the appointment, the cost and the limits. If the answer is not here, the coordinator will give it by phone.
It is treatment in which the active agent is not a chemical drug but cells of the immune system. Blood is drawn from the patient, the cells isolated from it are worked on outside the body — activated, or given the required specificity — and returned. The aim is for the patient's own immune system to recognise its target more precisely: tumour cells in oncology, or the body's own aggressive lymphocytes in autoimmune disease.
Checkpoint inhibitors are drugs that release the brake on the immune response across the whole body at once. Cell immunotherapy works differently: a cell product prepared from the blood of a particular patient is administered. The methods do not exclude each other and are sometimes used together, but that decision is made by the doctor in light of the current treatment plan.
No. At the center immunotherapy is used in addition to standard treatment, not instead of it. We never recommend giving up surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy in favour of immunotherapy.
Results for individual conditions are discussed in the materials of the center's scientific director, with group sizes and statistical significance stated. They are described on the disease pages and in the articles section. The limits matter: these are data on treated groups of patients, not the results of randomised phase III trials.
The doctor studies your medical history, records and test results, then discusses with you whether immunotherapy is appropriate in your situation and, if needed, orders further tests. The appointment takes about an hour and ends with a written opinion.
Medical records, histology and immunohistochemistry results, CT, MRI or PET-CT discs with written reports, recent blood tests and a list of the medicines you take. The coordinator will send the exact list when you book.
The duration depends on the programme and the clinical situation and is set after the in-person consultation. A course consists of several procedures with intervals, during which the doctor assesses tolerance and the interim result.
Yes, this is one of the most common reasons people come. The doctor gives an independent assessment of the diagnosis and the proposed treatment plan. A second opinion does not oblige you to be treated at the center.
Procedures are performed on an outpatient basis and do not require a hospital stay. You come according to the course schedule, which the doctor draws up taking into account how far you travel.
The general limits are acute infections, decompensation of severe concomitant disease, pregnancy, and conditions in which the immune response is deliberately suppressed for medical reasons. The full list of contraindications for a particular case is determined by the doctor at the consultation — it cannot be done remotely.
The most common is a short-lived reaction in the first 24 hours after the procedure: a slight temperature, weakness, aching. This is an expected response to immune activation. Any unusual reaction should be reported to the doctor at once — monitoring between procedures is part of the course.
There is no hard age limit. The doctor looks at general condition and concomitant disease rather than at the number in your passport, and decides on the basis of the work-up.
Course prices are listed on the pricing page: oncology from 285 000 ₽, autoimmune and allergic diseases from 185 000 ₽, musculoskeletal disorders from 155 000 ₽, chronic infections from 85 000 ₽. A consultation with the professor costs 10 000 ₽, with the oncologist 7 000 ₽. The final sum is set after the in-person consultation.
No. The center operates as a private medical practice and does not provide services under the Russian compulsory medical insurance scheme.
Yes. The center issues the contract, receipts and the certificate of payment for medical services — the set of documents needed for the social tax deduction. Ask the coordinator for it.
Yes, payment by stages of the course is possible. The terms are agreed when the contract is signed.
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