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an approach to the treatment of disease that uses medicines for stimulating the body's natural immune response
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What is the purpose of immunologic therapy?
Immunologic therapy is used to improve the immune system's natural ability to fight diseases such as cancer, hepatitis and AIDS. These drugs may also be used to help the body recover from immunosuppression resulting from.
What dosage of immunologic therapy drugs are normal?
The recommended dosage depends on the type of immunologic therapy. For some medicines, the physician will decide the dosage for each patient, taking into account a patient's weight and whether he/she is taking other medicines.
What interactions may occur with immunologic therapy drugs?
Anyone who has immunologic therapy should let the physician know all other medicines being taken. Some combinations of drugs may interact, that can increase or decrease the effects of one or both drugs or can.
What has the author Raoul L Wolf written?
Raoul L. Wolf has written: 'Essential pediatric allergy, asthma and immunology' -- subject(s): Allergy in children, Asthma in children, Child, Diagnosis, Hypersensitivity, Immunologic diseases, Immunologic diseases in children, Infant, Therapy
Why are regular appointments with the doctor are necessary during immunologic therapy treatment?
checkups give the physician a chance to make sure the medicine is working and to monitor the patient for unwanted side effects.
What research is being conducting on improving combination therapy for malignant melanoma?
Combining biologic or immunologic agents such as interferon with standard chemotherapeutic agents is under study and showing improved response rates.
What involves a monoclonal antitumor antibody and toxin. A. immunosuppression B. Immunologic surveillance C. Immunologic enhancemen D. Immune complex E. Immunotherapy?
Immunotherapy
What are the characteristics of immunologic therapy drugs?
Most drugs in this category are synthetic versions of substances produced naturally in the body. In their natural forms, these substances help defend the body against disease. For example, aldesleukin (Proleukin) is an artificially made.
What has the author Juanita A Smith written?
Juanita A. Smith has written: 'Immunology' -- subject(s): Laboratory manuals, Immunologic Techniques, Immunology, Immunologic Tests, Serodiagnosis, Immunodiagnosis
How long does it typically take to produce sufficient immunologic memory following an initial exposure to an antigen?
Production of sufficient immunologic memory typically takes a few weeks following the initial antigen exposure.
What is the name of the person who specializes in diagnosing and treating the immune system?
It may vary from country to county but it can be immunologist and sometimes clinical ecologist.The specialist is actually known as an Allergist[specializes in diagnosing and treating conditions of altered immunologic reactivity, such as allergic reaction].
What is immunologic system?
"Immunological system" is just a fancy way to say "immune system".
