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n. - A medical procedure designed to produce protection against a disease or to enhance resistance by the body's system.

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  • Generally, patients receive injections for about three to five years, at which point the symptoms usually do not return if immunotherapy is stopped.
  • The trial will use a form of treatment called 'immunotherapy', in which the body's own immune system is harnessed to better fight off the cancer.
  • "immunotherapy" that is primitive and almost certainly worthless.
  • As for other strategies - there's always immunotherapy!
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