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immunotherapy
English
Etymology
From immuno- +? therapy.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: im?mu?no?the?ra?py
Noun
immunotherapy (plural immunotherapies)
- (immunology) The treatment of disease (especially cancers and autoimmune diseases) by adjusting the body's immune response.
- (immunology, oncology) The treatment of cancer by improving the ability of the host to reject a tumour immunologically: cancer immunotherapy.
Hypernyms
- therapy
Derived terms
- immunotherapeutic
- immunotherapeutically
Related terms
- immunomodulation
- immunomodulatory
Translations
References
- immunotherapy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
immunotherapy From the web:
- what immunotherapy is used for melanoma
- what immunotherapy is used for bladder cancer
- what immunotherapy is used for breast cancer
- what immunotherapy for cancer
- what immunotherapy is used for lung cancer
- what immunotherapy is used for pancreatic cancer
- what is the best immunotherapy
chemotherapy
English
Etymology
chemo- +? therapy
Noun
chemotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural chemotherapies)
- (medicine) Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
- (oncology, most common usage) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.
Derived terms
- chemotherapeutic
Translations
Anagrams
- chamerophyte
chemotherapy From the web:
- what chemotherapy does to the body
- what chemotherapy is used for breast cancer
- what chemotherapy is used for colon cancer
- what chemotherapy is used for liver cancer
- what chemotherapy is used for leukemia
- what chemotherapy is used for prostate cancer
- what chemotherapy is used for ovarian cancer
- what chemotherapy is used for pancreatic cancer
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