immunotherapy

English

Etymology

From immuno- +‎ therapy.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: im‧mu‧no‧the‧ra‧py

Noun

immunotherapy (plural immunotherapies)

1. (immunology) The treatment of disease (especially cancers and autoimmune diseases) by adjusting the body's immune response.
   1. (immunology, oncology) The treatment of cancer by improving the ability of the host to reject a tumour immunologically: cancer immunotherapy.

Hypernyms

• therapy

Derived terms

• immunotherapeutic
• immunotherapeutically

Related terms

• immunomodulation
• immunomodulatory

Translations

treatment of disease

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: imunoterapie f
• Finnish: siedätys (fi), siedätyshoito (fi), immunoterapia
• French: immunothérapie (fr) f
• Greek: ανοσοθεραπεία (el) f (anosotherapeía)
• Italian: immunoterapia (it) f
• Japanese: 免疫治療 (めんえきちりょう, men'eki-chiryō)
• Persian: ایمنی‌درمانی (imeni-darmâni)

treatment of cancer

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: immunoterapia
• French: immunothérapie (fr) f
• Greek: ανοσοθεραπεία (el) f (anosotherapeía)
• Hungarian: immunterápia (hu)
• Italian: immunoterapia (it) f
• Japanese: 免疫治療 (めんえきちりょう, men'eki-chiryō), 癌免疫治療 (がんめんえきちりょう, gan-men'eki-chiryō)
• Persian: ایمنی‌درمانی (imeni-darmâni)

References

• immunotherapy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia