immunotherapy
IPA: ɪmjunoʊθˈɛrʌpi
noun
- (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.
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Examples of "immunotherapy" in Sentences
- Yervoy is an example of an emerging class of treatments known as immunotherapy that harness the body's own immune system to fight tumors.
- Generally, patients receive injections for about three to five years, at which point the symptoms usually do not return if immunotherapy is stopped.
- One is something known as immunotherapy, which actually former Clinton supporters on the body's own immune system, trying to teach it, if you will, to attack that tumor.
- There are basically three key ways to treat allergies, says Rosenstreich: controlling your environment, taking medications and getting allergy shots, called immunotherapy.
- The problems with the launch of Provenge, approved in April 2010 after a lengthy regulatory process, may show the potential difficulties in selling a so-called immunotherapy.
- Allergy shots are a form of treatment for people with severe allergies called immunotherapy, in which a patient receives injections with a small amount of the allergens the person is allergic to.
- Using a patient's own immune system to combat cancer, called immunotherapy, is a growing area of research that aims to develop less-toxic cancer treatments than standard chemotherapy and radiation.
- The term immunotherapy is used to describe treatments that can be used to re-program the immune system of people (or animals) with allergies; usually this involves repeatedly exposing the immune system to small amounts of the allergen.
- Steinman's discovery of what he named dendritic cells, which regulate and adapt the immune system's defense mechanisms, "laid the foundation for an area of therapy development that's just coming into its own, called immunotherapy," said Louis DeGennaro of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, which helped fund Steinman's early work.
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