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immunotherapy
Any form of treatment that alters, enhances, stimulates or restores the body's natural immune mechanisms to treat disease
Allergy injections
Injection with increasing strengths of the offending antigen given over a perido of months or years to increase tolerance
biological
Use of immune system stimulators to enhance the immune response in the treatment of certain forms of cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn disease
bonde marrow aspiration
removal of a small sample of bone marrow using a thing aspirating needle for microscopic examination
bone marrow transplant
Infusion of healthy bone marrow stem cells after the diseased bon marrow is destroyed by chemo or radio therapy.
autologous
Infusion of the patient's own bonde marrow afer a course of chemo or radiotherapy
homologous
ifusion of bonde marrow or stem cells from a compatible donor
lymphadenectomy
Removal of lymph nodes
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
transfusion
Infusion of blood or blood products from one person to another
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