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.
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.
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.
an approach to the treatment of disease that uses medicines for stimulating the body's natural immune response
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checkups give the physician a chance to make sure the medicine is working and to monitor the patient for unwanted side effects.
Combining biologic or immunologic agents such as interferon with standard chemotherapeutic agents is under study and showing improved response rates.
The ultimate purpose of the therapy is to promote wellness; fundamentally it is a form of preventive therapy.
not so positive, but it does depend on what kind of gene therapy and for what purpose
The purpose of interstitial microwave thermal therapy is to damage and kill cancer cells associated with tumors that are deep within the body.
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The purpose of photocoagulation therapy is to reattach a torn or detached portion of the retina and/or prevent further growth of abnormal blood vessels in the retina that can cause a detachment.
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.