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immunotherapy
- Subject Category
- H Health and Pathology
- Definition
- A type of biological therapy that uses substances to stimulate or suppress the immune system to help the body fight cancer, infection, and other diseases. Some types of immunotherapy only target certain cells of the immune system. Others affect the immune system in a general way. Types of immunotherapy include cytokines, vaccines, bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), and some monoclonal antibodies.
- Definition Source
- National Cancer Institute
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/10543.rdf
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/10543
- USE FOR And Type
- immune desensitization
- immunosuppression (therapy)
- immunosuppression drug therapy
- immunosuppression therapies
- immunosuppression therapy
- immunosuppressive drug therapy
- immunosuppressive therapies
- immunosuppressive therapy
- Broader Term
- therapeutics
- Narrower Term
- immunization
- Related Term
- allergoids
- antiserum
- immunosuppression
- Spanish
- inmunoterapia
- Term Number
- 10543