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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Treatment of disease with biologics, such as certain drugs, vaccines, or antitoxins.

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  • noun Any of several unrelated therapies that use natural biological processes, especially those that use parts of the immune system
  • noun The use of living organisms (such as maggots or leeches) in the control of disease or the healing of wounds

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Examples

  • BioAlliance Pharma's AMEP biotherapy reduces both tumour growth and tumour angiogenesis

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

  • Our three Infusion/Chemotherapy Center nurses are current with their biotherapy and chemotherapy cards.

    craigdailypress.com stories 2010

  • BioAlliance Pharma's AMEP biotherapy reduces both tumour growth and tumour angiogenesis

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Javier Zacarias 2010

  • BioAlliance Pharma's AMEP biotherapy reduces both tumour growth and tumour angiogenesis

    THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010

  • Patients may have been previously treated with surgery, adjuvant therapy, and/or biotherapy, but cannot have been previously treated with chemotherapy.

    News 2010

  • BioAlliance Pharma's AMEP biotherapy reduces both tumour growth and tumour angiogenesis

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

  • BioAlliance Pharma's AMEP biotherapy reduces both tumour growth and tumour angiogenesis

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

  • TM (a biotherapy indicated in invasive melanoma) and a first-in-class anticancer drug that targets invasive cancers and makes tumor cells revert to a normal phenotype.

    unknown title 2009

  • It is recommended that anyone receiving biotherapy receive the vaccination.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

  • AMEP ™, anti-invasive biotherapy, is dedicated to metastatic and invasive melanoma, an advanced skin cancer refractory to most treatments.

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

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