immunotherapy

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Treatment or prevention of a disease using agents that can modify the immune response.
Notes:
  1. Immunotherapy is largely an experimental approach, applied most widely in the treatment of leukemias, melanoma, and hypernephroma.
  2. Immunotherapy may involve active or passive immunization, immunopotentiation or immunosuppression, hyposensitization, bone marrow transplantation, or thymus implantation.
Source:
PAC, 2012, 84, 1113. (IUPAC glossary of terms used in immunotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)) on page 1192 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'immunotherapy' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.13322 RIS BibTex EndNote
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