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immunotherapy |
Any form of treatment that alters, enhances, stimulates or restores the body's natural immune mechanisms to treat disease |
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Allergy injections |
Injection with increasing strengths of the offending antigen given over a perido of months or years to increase tolerance |
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biological |
Use of immune system stimulators to enhance the immune response in the treatment of certain forms of cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn disease |
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bonde marrow aspiration |
removal of a small sample of bone marrow using a thing aspirating needle for microscopic examination |
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bone marrow transplant |
Infusion of healthy bone marrow stem cells after the diseased bon marrow is destroyed by chemo or radio therapy. |
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autologous |
Infusion of the patient's own bonde marrow afer a course of chemo or radiotherapy |
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homologous |
ifusion of bonde marrow or stem cells from a compatible donor |
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lymphadenectomy |
Removal of lymph nodes |
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sentinel node excision |
Removal of the first node (sentinel node) that receives drainage from cancer containing aras and the most likely to contain malignant cells |
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transfusion |
Infusion of blood or blood products from one person to another |
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antinuclear antibody (ANA) |
test to identify antibodies that attack the nucleus of the individual's won body cells (auto-antibodies) |
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blood culture |
test to determine the presence of pathogens in the bloodstream
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complete blood count (cdc) |
series of tests that includes hemoglobin; hemotocrit; red and white blood cell counts, platelet count; and differential count. Also called hemogram |
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monospot |
nonspecific rapid serological tst for the presence of the heterophile antibody, which develops several days after infection by Epstein Barr virus, the organism that caused infectius mononucleosis |
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partial thromboplastin time (PTT |
test that measures the length of time is takes blood to clot to screen for deficiencies of some clotting factors. Also called activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) |
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prothrombin time (PT) |
Test that measures the time it takes for prothrombin to form a clot; also called pro time |
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Shilling test |
test used to diagnose pernicious anemia by determining if the body properly abosorbs vitamin B 12 through the digestive tract |
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bone marrow magnetic resonace imaging MRI |
Highly sensitive imaging procedure that detects lesions and changes in bone tissue and bone marrow, especially in multiple myeloma |
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lymphangiography |
Visualization of lymphatic channels and lymph nodes using a contrast medium to determine blockages and othr pathologies of the lymph system |
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lymphoscintigraphy |
ntroduction of a radioactive tracer into the lymph channels to determine lymph flow, identify obstructions and locate the sentinel node |
