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IMMUNOTHERAPY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Therapy designed to produce immunity to a disease or to enhance resistance by the immune system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("immunotherapy" is a kind of...):

therapy ((medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.))

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Also known as immunotherapy, biotherapy, or biological response modifier therapy.

(Biological response modifier therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Also known as biological therapy, immunotherapy, or biotherapy.

(Biological response modifier therapy, NCI Dictionary)

Overexpressed in several cancer cell lines, FGF-5 is a tumor-associated antigen that may be useful in cancer immunotherapy.

(FGF-5:172-176 / 217-220 Peptide, NCI Thesaurus)

A chemo-immunotherapy regimen consisting of fluorouracil, leucovorin, and bevacizumab used for the treatment of advanced-stage colorectal cancer.

(FU-LV-Bevacizumab Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)

Monoclonal antibody T101 may be used in the immunotherapy of T-cell malignancies.

(Monoclonal Antibody T101 F(ab)2, NCI Thesaurus)

Radiolabelled MoAb huJ591 may be used in immunotherapy of prostate cancer.

(Monoclonal Antibody huJ591, NCI Thesaurus)

Use of two or more simultaneous or consecutive treatment modalities; e.g., surgery + radiation, or radiation + immunotherapy.

(Multimodality therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

NY-ESO-1 elicits a strong, integrated humoral and cellular immune response in a high proportion of patients with NY-ESO-1-expressing tumors and is under investigation as a cancer immunotherapy agent.

(NY-ESO-B, NCI Thesaurus)

A synthetic peptide derived from the tumor suppressor protein p53 with potential use in cancer immunotherapy. p53:264-272 peptide consists of amino acid residues 264 through 272 of the p53 protein.

(p53:264-272 Peptide, NCI Thesaurus)

A recombinant monoclonal antibody directed against the lymphocyte receptor CD2 with potential use in cancer immunotherapy.

(Monoclonal Antibody 95-5-49, NCI Thesaurus)