Biological Therapy

Biological Therapy
Biological therapy is an umbrella term used to describe treatments, which work with the immune system in various ways. Some agents work to stimulate the immune system and enhance the body's response to cancer cells.

What is biological therapy?
Biological therapy is treatment designed to stimulate or restore the ability of the body's immune (natural internal defense) system to fight infection and disease.

Biological therapy is a treatment that uses your body's immune system to fight cancer cells rather than attacking those cells directly.

Biological therapy and chemotherapy are both treatments that fight cancer. While they may seem alike, they work in different ways. Biological therapy helps your immune system fight cancer. Chemotherapy attacks the cancer cells directly.

Biological Therapy for Cancer Treatment
What is biological therapy?

biological therapy (Also called immunotherapy.)
Biological therapy is a treatment that uses the body's own immune system to fight cancer.
chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells.
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Biological therapy
Treatment to increase or restore the ability of the immune system to fight cancer, infections, and other illnesses. Some drugs also have a direct anti cancer effect.

Biological Therapy: A treatment that stimulates the body's own immune system to fight cancer or blood disorders.
Blood Count: A blood test used to determine the number of the various types of blood cells.

biological therapy (Also called biological response modifier (BRM) therapy, or immunotherapy.) - tries to get your own body to fight cancer by using materials made by your own body, or made in a laboratory, to boost, direct, ...

Biological therapy: Treatment to restore the ability of the immune system to fight infection or other diseases.

Biological therapy
Biological therapy refers to a wide range of substances that may be able to involve the body's own immune system to fight cancer or lessen harmful side effects of some treatments.
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Biological therapy (by-o-LOJ-i-kul): The use of the body's immune system, either directly or indirectly, to fight cancer or to lessen side effects that may be caused by some cancer treatments.

Biological Therapy
Biological therapy involves substances made by the body to increase or restore the body's natural defenses against cancer. Examples include:
Interferon
Interleukin 2
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Biological therapy - Biological therapy uses the body's own materials, or those made in a laboratory, to assist the body in fighting the cancer. It may also be called biological response modifier therapy, or immunotherapy.

Biological Therapy
These medicines are designed after the body's natural cancer-fighting mechanisms. They increase or restore the body's natural defenses against cancer.

biological therapy - using the body's immune system to fight cancer.
blasts - immature blood cells.

biological therapy (Also called immunotherapy, biotherapy, or biological response modifier therapy.) - uses the body's immune system, either directly or indirectly, ...

Biological Therapy, Immunotherapy, or Biological Response Modifier (BRM) and Radioimmunotherapy Therapy
These medications or substances are made by the body. They increase or restore the body’s natural defenses against cancer.

Biological therapy (also called immunotherapy or BRM, biological response modifier therapy) - therapy used to help get the patient's own immune system to fight against disease.

Biological Therapy and Immunotherapy
Biological therapy is a systemic therapy that uses substances injected into the bloodstream to reach and affect cells all over the body.

Biological therapy
An injectable medication called interferon alpha used to be the standard treatment for CML. This medication reduces the growth of leukemia cells by stimulating the body's immune system to work better.

Biological Therapy - The side effects of biological therapy depend on the type of treatment. Often, these treatments cause flu-like symptoms such as chills, fever, muscle aches, weakness, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.

Biological therapy is a treatment designed to enhance the body's natural defenses against cancer.

Biological Therapy
Also known as biotherapy or immunotherapy, is a new form of cancer treatment based on the knowledge and tools of modern molecular biology, immunology, and genetics.

Biological Therapy
Prevention, Genetics, Causes
Information related to prevention and risk factors
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Biological Therapy
Biological therapy is a kind of treatment that works to build up the body's immune system to fight disease. It is also used to help the body fight side effects of other treatments.
Biomarker
See Tumor Marker.

Biological therapy, also called immunotherapy, is the most common treatment for advanced kidney cancer. It helps the body's immune defenses fight and destroy cancer cells. There are three types of biological therapy: ...

Biological therapy involves treatment with substances such as interferon that affect the response of the immune system to cancer.

Biological therapy with trastuzumab (Herceptin) to block the protein HER-2.
Corticosteroids, which may be used if metastatic disease involves the brain or spinal cord.

chemotherapy
biological therapy - using the body's immune system to fight cancer.
kinase inhibitors (Gleevec)
radiation therapy
stem cell transplantation
splenectomy - surgery to remove the spleen.

Immunotherapy / Biological Therapy
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Chemotherapy or biological therapy (interferon) are considered less effective therapies for melanoma involving the eye.
Support Groups
For additional resources, see cancer support group.

Immunotherapy, or biological therapy, uses the body's own immune system to fight the disease. In the case of early-stage bladder cancer, bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG), a weakened strain of tuberculosis, may be placed directly into the bladder.

Also called biological therapy, biotherapy, BRM therapy, and immunotherapy.
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Biological therapy is thus any form of treatment that uses the body's natural abilities that constitute the immune system to fight infection and disease or to protect the body from some of the side effects of treatment.

Biological therapy
Biological therapy (also called immunotherapy) helps the body's natural ability (immune system) to fight disease or protects the body from some of the side effects of cancer treatment.

Cancer Treatment - Biological Therapy For Cancer Treatment
Biological therapy uses the body's immune system to fight cancer. The cells, antibodies, and organs of the immune system work to defend the body against bacteria and viruses.

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Immunotherapy (sometimes called biological therapy) uses substances that help the body mobilize its immune defenses. Some attack the tumor itself, while others bolster the body's ability to withstand conventional chemotherapy treatment.

The type of biological therapy used may determine the type and pattern of fatigue experienced. Many people with cancer undergo surgery for diagnosis or treatment. Fatigue is a problem following surgery, but fatigue from surgery improves with time.

Biological therapy - also known as immunotherapy. This is the use of substances that are naturally produced within the body to encourage the immune system to fight disease. Interferon and interleukin have been used to treat some kidney cancers.

Another kind of treatment is biological therapy (also called immunotherapy). This treatment is used to trigger the body's immune system to produce more white blood cells, called lymphocytes (say: limf-o-sites).

Immunotherapy is also referred to as 'biological therapy;' This type of treatment involves not only using the body's natural defense system to battle off disease but also lessening the side effects for certain cancer treatments such as chemotherapy ...

You might receive a combination of treatments that could include chemotherapy, biological therapy, radiation therapy, and stem cell transplantation.

biological therapy
Chemotherapy may be used before surgery or radiation to make a tumor smaller. When it is, it's called neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. Sometimes it's used after surgery or radiation to destroy cancer cells.

During immunotherapy or biological therapy treatments, patients are given a substance that is designed to boost the immune system.

Immunotherapy: Also called biological therapy, this method makes use of drugs that direct the body’s immune system to destroy the cancer cells.

Biologic therapy (also called biological therapy) is a new option for treating JIA, particularly polyarticular JIA, that does not respond to other treatments.

Treatment for both chronic and acute leukemia may involve chemotherapy, targeted therapy, biological therapy, radiation therapy or a bone marrow transplant, the NCI says. People with an enlarged spleen may need to have their spleen removed.

Immunotherapy (sometimes called biological therapy)
This treatment uses drugs to stimulate the immune system to attack cancerous cells.

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biological therapy
medications (to prevent or treat damage to other systems of the body caused by leukemia treatment)
medications (for nausea and side effects of treatment)
blood transfusions (red blood cells, platelets) ...

Medical Oncologist: a doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating cancer using chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, biological therapy, and targeted therapy. A medical oncologist often is the main health care provider for someone who has cancer.

Treatment for chronic leukaemia can also include biological therapy, such as interferon alpha. Sometimes, drugs are injected through a tube directly into the spinal column or brain to reach the cells there.

In a few special situations (such as high-risk patients or patients whose cancer has come back), doctors are using a new treatment called immunotherapy (or biological therapy).

Palliative radiation therapy.
Palliative chemotherapy.
Clinical trials evaluating new drugs and biological therapy.
Clinical trials comparing various chemotherapy regimens or biological therapy, alone or in combination.

Bowel cancer can be treated using a combination of surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and, in some cases, biological therapy.

Approaches to bladder cancer treatment include chemotherapy, biological therapy, radiation therapy and a number of options for bladder cancer surgery. The best treatment is determined by the individual and the nature of his or her cancer.

CLL is treated by chemotherapy, radiation therapy, biological therapy, or bone marrow transplantation. Symptoms are sometimes treated surgically (splenectomy removal of enlarged spleen) or by radiation therapy ("de-bulking" swollen lymph nodes).

Early symptoms include fatigue and night sweats. Treatment may be by radiation, chemotherapy, biological therapy, or bone- marrow transplant. Also known as chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), chronic granulocytic leukemia.

See also: Cancer, Symptom, Surgery, Radiation therapy, Immune System