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   Cancer

   Cancer can be treated by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, monoclonal antibody therapy or other methods.
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   Cancer immunotherapy

   Cancer immunotherapy is the use of the immune system to reject cancer. ... Its use has been investigated, primarily in the treatment of follicular lymphoma.
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   Immunotherapy

   One use for this therapy is in cancer immunotherapy. ... A three-to-five-year individually tailored regimen of injections may result in long-term benefits.
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   Polysaccharide-K

   Gastric cancer ... A randomized trial of chemo immunotherapy of acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia in adults using a protein-bound polysaccharide preparation.
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   Colorectal cancer

   Treatment ... Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is being investigated as an adjuvant mixed with autologous tumor cells in immunotherapy for colorectal cancer.
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   Hyposensitization

   The term immunotherapy may refer not only to desensitization for allergies but also to a number of other immunomodulator techniques that aim to alter the response of the immune system in order to alleviate or cure autoimmune disease, cancer, and so forth. ... The serum injected is compounded specifically for the individual, based on his or her unique allergy profile, and treats for specific allergens.
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   Bladder cancer

   Suspicious lesions may be biopsied and sent for pathologic analysis. ... ↑ "BCG immunotherapy of bladder cancer: 20 years on" (1999) 353 (9165): 1689–94.
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   Cancer vaccine

   The term cancer vaccine refers to a vaccine that either prevents infections with cancer-causing viruses, or treats existing cancer. ... It is the first approval by a regulatory body of a cancer immunotherapy.
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   CancerVax

   -Specific Active Immunotherapy: The generation of cell-mediated and antibody immune responses focused on specific antigens expressed by the cancer cells.
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    Cancer immunoprevention

    This is at variance with cancer immunotherapy administered to cure existing tumors, which is mainly based on cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL).

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Cancer,
• Cancer immunotherapy,
• Immunotherapy,
• Polysaccharide-K,
• Colorectal cancer,
• Hyposensitization,
• Bladder cancer,
• Cancer vaccine,
• CancerVax,
• Cancer immunoprevention