immunotherapy
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- Hyphenation: im‧mu‧no‧the‧ra‧py
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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.
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treatment of disease
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treatment of cancer
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- immunotherapy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia