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Adoptive Immunotherapy
Definition 1
A technique for enhancing cell-mediated immunity by: 1) artificially increasing the number of specific immunocompetent cells through inoculation of either ex-vivo expanded primarily activated cytotoxic lymphocytes or genetically engineered lymphocytes with enhanced cytotoxic ability or 2) by altering tumor cells to make them more immunogenic. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
A treatment used to help the immune system fight diseases, such as cancer and infections with certain viruses. T cells are collected from a patient and grown in the laboratory. This increases the number of T cells that are able to kill cancer cells or fight infections. These T cells are given back to the patient to help the immune system fight disease. (NCI Dictionary)
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