immunotherapy
(noun)
the treatment of cancer by improving the ability of the host to reject a tumor immunologically
Examples of immunotherapy in the following topics:
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Immunotherapy for Cancer
- Cancer immunotherapy is the use of the body's own immune system to reject cancer.
- Cancer immunotherapy is the use of the body's own immune system to reject cancer.
- Cell-based immunotherapy is another major entity of cancer immunotherapy.
- GD2 is thus a convenient tumor-specific target for immunotherapies.
- The development and testing of second-generation immunotherapies is already under way.
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Allergy
- Studies have demonstrated the long-term efficacy and the preventive effect of immunotherapy in reducing the development of new allergies.
- A second form of immunotherapy involves the intravenous injection of monoclonal anti-IgE antibodies.
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Burkitt's Lymphoma
- Other treatments are immunotherapy, bone marrow transplants, stem cell transplant, surgery to remove the tumor, and radiotherapy.