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| | Immunotherapy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Immunotherapy is a form of medical treatment based upon the concept of modulating the immune system to achieve a therapeutic goal. | | | Immunotherapy is generally not indicated for food or medicinal allergies. | | | (Recent research suggests that patients who complete immunotherapy may continue to see benefits 12 years later.) Immunotherapy does not work for everyone and is only partly effective in some people, but it offers allergy sufferers the chance of eventually reduce or stop medication intake. |
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| | Immunotherapy Cancer Treatment |
| | Immunotherapy seems to offer great promise as a new dimension in cancer treatment, but it is still very much in its infancy. | | | The concept of immunotherapy is based on the body's natural defense system, which protects us against a variety of diseases. | | | Although many clinical trials of new forms of immunotherapy are in progress, an enormous amount of research remains to be done before the findings can be widely applied. |
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| | Postgraduate Medicine: Immunotherapy for inhalant allergies |
| | Immunotherapy continues to be an important treatment for patients who have inhalant allergies. | | | Early evidence that immunotherapy is effective was drawn from anecdotal reports from patients who received such therapy and the physicians who observed their responses. | | | Although much remains to be learned about the mechanism of action with this therapy, the accumulating clinical evidence for its efficacy suggests that it should be used early for the treatment of allergic asthma and allergic rhinitis. |
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| | Allergy Shots from WebMD |
| | Immunotherapy is not proven to be effective for hives or food allergies. | | | There is a greater risk of a body-wide reaction with this approach, so rush immunotherapy generally is done in a hospital under close medical supervision. | | | Proponents of this treatment claim that EPD can be used to treat a broad range of allergens without the need for weekly shots. |
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| | Dr. Divyang Trivedi |
| | Immunotherapy should be prescribed only by an allergist-immunologist or other physician who is expertly trained in the therapy. | | | Allergy shots is the term often used for allergen immunotherapy treatment, or allergy vaccination. | | | Effectiveness of immunotherapy in the management of asthma: A meta-analysis of the literature. |
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| | immunotherapy |
| | Immunotherapy, also referred to as allergy shots or desensitization, is an effective method for treating allergic conditions caused by inhaled allergens. | | | Immunotherapy for allergy to mosquitoes, fleas, and spiders has not been demonstrated to be effective. | | | Imported fire ant allergy is amenable to immunotherapy. |
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| | Asthma, Hayfever, Eczema and Food Allergy - Immunotherapy |
| | Immunotherapy has been administered with limited success via other routes such as intranasally and sublingually, these practices are still controversial and need to be further evaluated. | | | The ideal candidate is a severely allergic person who is unable to avoid the offending allergen in daily life and in who drug therapy has failed to control the allergy or in whom drug side-effects have become intolerable. | | | In house dust mite allergy the duration of clinical response may be shorter and immunotherapy may need to be re-commenced at a later stage. |
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| | Bladder Cancer WebCafe - Immunotherapy |
| | Immunotherapy - also referred to as biological therapy, biotherapy or biological response modifier therapy - is a relatively new treatment for cancer. | | | These therapies use the body's immune system, either directly or indirectly, to fight cancer. |
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| | Immunotherapy injections (desensitization, allergy shots) |
| | Given that the first report of immunotherapy appeared in 1911 in the Lancet, it is clear that science has lagged behind clinical practice by many decades. | | | "Specific immunotherapy in rhinitis and asthma." Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol 87(1 Suppl 1): 38-42. | | | Specific immunotherapy prevents the onset of new sensitizations in children." J Allergy Clin Immunol 99(4): 450-3. |
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| | Postgraduate Medicine: Allergy Symposium: Safe allergen immunotherapy |
| | As yet, however, immunotherapy has not been shown to be effective for management of eczema, food allergy, latex allergy, or urticaria. | | | For patients who need it, accelerated immunotherapy is available in specialized centers (see box at end of article). | | | Dr Schoenwetter is director, Asthma and Allergy Research Center, Park Nicollet Clinic, and clinical professor of medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis. |
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| | Immunotherapy in the Treatment of an Adenoma Prostate and Prostate Cancers |
| | Below, it is demonstrated the PSA level changes observed after vaccination by RESAN in the patients with prostate problems (based on clinical assessment of patients with prostate problems). | | | Although local prostate cancer (PC) can be cured in most cases by radical prostatectomy, therapies for metastatic and androgen-independent PC are limited and rather unsatisfactory. | | | According to the SRE RESAN company's scientific and clinical research works outcomes - it is, without doubt, one of the most wide ranged and strongest novel cancer vaccine so far that can be used as a target for antigen-specific immunotherapy. |
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| | NGC - NGC Summary |
| | There are no data on the effectiveness or risks associated with allergen immunotherapy in patients with immunodeficiency or autoimmune disorders. | | | Successful immunotherapy is also associated with immunologic tolerance, defined as a relative decline in allergen-specific responsiveness. | | | The selection of allergens for immunotherapy should be based in part on the cross-reactivity of clinically relevant allergens. |
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http://www.guideline.gov/summary/summary.aspx?ss=15&doc_id=3621&nbr=2847
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| | HON Allergy Glossary Immunotherapy |
| | Researchers are trying to determine exactly which mechanisms are active in a specific patient so allergen immunotherapy can be better tailored to the individual. | | | This is thought to be due to active immunoregulatory mechanisms that alter how a specific individual responds to a particular allergen. | | | Multiple theories have been advanced to explain the mechanism of how allergen immunotherapy works. |
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| | Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine: Venom immunotherapy |
| | Honeybee venom immunotherapy is used to treat many other conditions in alternative medicine. | | | Before beginning venom immunotherapy, a person should be tested for allergies. | | | Although a doctor can administer bee venom therapy, no specific training or certification is required to perform the therapy. |
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| | Asthma Management Shots |
| | Although precise mechanisms for efficacy of allergen immunotherapy are unknown, several specific immunomodulatory pathways have been implicated. | | | Patient compliance is essential for the effective and safe application of allergen immunotherapy. | | | Therefore supervising health care providers should be prepared to treat such reactions as promptly and effectively as possible. |
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| | Many cancer doctors now regard immunotherapy as the "fourth modality," or fourth way, to treat cancer. | | | Find out how this treatment uses your body's own defense system to fight cancer. | | | Many advances against cancer in the future will probably come from this field. |
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http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/eto_1_3_Immunotherapy.asp
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| | Immunotherapy |
| | Immunotherapy refers to the use of a variety of methods and drugs to manipulate the immune system. | | | This system plays a major role in protecting our bodies from infection, as well as cancer. | | | Manipulation of the immune system can be achieved by using any of the following medications: |
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| | The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society : - Leukemia |
| | Monoclonal antibody therapy, donor lymphocyte infusion, vaccine therapy and immune cell-stimulating cytokine therapy are types of immunotherapies that are in use or under study to determine their effectiveness in fighting cancers. | | | To better understand immunotherapies it is helpful to have some basic information about the body's natural immune system. | | | Immunotherapies are relatively new and promising treatment options for patients with blood cancers. |
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http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/all_mat_toc.adp?item_id=9889
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| | Dr. Koop - Allergy Immunotherapy- Health Encyclopedia and Reference |
| | You should promptly seek professional medical care if you have any concern about your health, and you should always consult your physician before starting a fitness regimen. | | | Koop - Allergy Immunotherapy- Health Encyclopedia and Reference | | | What Questions to ask Your Doctor About Allergy Immunotherapy? |
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| | Sublingual Immunotherapy for Adults |
| | Based on the above, use of sublingual immunotherapy for patients with allergies does not meet the TEC criteria. | | | The Assessment seeks to determine whether sublingual immunotherapy (SLIT) improves health outcomes for patients with seasonal or perennial allergies, when compared with subcutaneous injections for allergen-specific immunotherapy (ASIT). | | | The Assessment addresses the following questions, separately for seasonal and perennial allergies: does the available evidence show that SLIT improves health outcomes |
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| | IMMUNOTHERAPY OF CANCERS, Reviewed Materials, Guidelines & Links... |
| | One of our aims here, is to represent these substantial mass information in more systematic and relevant forms so that the patients, doctors, immunologists and other readers interested in cancer immunotherapy could be better oriented to find the right information, in right place and with out brooding too long in the internet. | | | Cancer vaccines are an emerging type of biological therapy that is still experimental. | | | But, as these new therapies are not yet available in conventional forms for various reasons; the facts, updates and evidences are sited rather in scattering and disputing manner. |
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| | San Diego Immunotherapy |
| | My point here is that patients should not simplistically assume that immunotherapy will replace oncological treatment for them. | | | I delight to point out to my patients that it is only six blocks from where Dr. Virginia Livingston started her immunotherapy program on First Avenue in downtown San Diego. | | | Roughly one hundred of the active LFMC patients have become my patients (including some who have decided to continue working with Dr. LaBeau’s clinic as well). |
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| | Tumor Immunotherapy Program |
| | Howard L. Kaufman, MD, Director of the Tumor Immunotherapy Program, leads a team of doctors, nurses, and research scientists who have specialized training in vaccine therapy and biotherapy. | | | The Tumor Immunotherapy Program also educates health-care professionals in the various aspects of immunotherapy research and patient care. | | | Patients benefit from this translational approach, which draws upon the collaborative efforts of our laboratory research teams and clinical staff. |
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| | Biological therapy |
| | In fact, the first biological therapies for cancer were all immunotherapies. | | | Your cancer doctor is the best person to talk to about whether or not biological therapy is going to help your type of cancer or not. | | | Because it uses natural substances, immunotherapy is also biological therapy. |
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| | Immunotherapy |
| | Patients in outlying rural areas who are unable to travel to a faraway clinic for weekly allergy injections | | | We can test for allergies via the skin response or by using a blood sample. | | | Patients with mild to moderate seasonal pollen allergies may not need year round treatment. |
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| | Immunotherapy - definition of Immunotherapy in Encyclopedia |
| | Immunotherapy is a disease treatment based upon the concept of triggering the body's own natural defenses to fight off the disease, usually by stimulating the immune system either locally or systemically. | | | Oncology represents one of the most actively researched areas of immunotherapy, and offers the promise of new therapies for cancer, based upon the idea of stimulating the patient's immune system to attack the malignant tumor cells that are responsible for the disease. | | | While antibodies targeted to disease-causing antigens can be effective under certain circumstances, in many cases, their efficacy may be limited by other factors. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Immunotherapy
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| | Medications and immunotherapy for asthma - MayoClinic.com |
| | If you have allergic asthma that can't be easily controlled by avoiding triggers and using medication, allergy desensitization shots (immunotherapy) may help you. | | | A number of individual medications exist for asthma, and many are used in combination with others. | | | Long-term use of these medications can cause serious side effects, including cataracts, loss of bone mineral (osteoporosis), muscle weakness, decreased resistance to infection, high blood pressure and thinning of the skin. |
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| | Immunotherapy / Immune-based therapy (IBT) |
| | Even if immunotherapy does reach its theoretical potential, it is unlikely to rival traditional chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. | | | This potentially makes them even more responsive to immunotherapy approaches such as TroVax. | | | The clinical application of immunotherapy against cancer is rapidly moving forward in multiple areas, including the adoptive transfer of anti-tumor-reactive T cells and the use of "therapeutic" vaccines. |
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| | Mesothelioma Treatment: Immunotherapy |
| | Your immune system is a series of body responses that wards off infections and diseases. | | | Immunotherapy is in the experimental stage, especially for mesothelioma patients. | | | Immunotherapy (or biological therapy) attempts to build up your immune system to fight cancer cells. |
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| | Mesothelioma Treatments - Immunotherapy & Gene Therapy |
| | Immunotherapy, also referred to as biological therapy, is based on the theory that it is possible to mobilize the body's own immune defenses against cancerous cells. | | | There were also some positive results from immunotherapy treatment of malignant mesothelioma patients in a recent French study (see: " | | | For an up-to-date scientific discussion about immunotherapy, Science Magazine published a special issue on the topic of immunotherapy (see |
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| | Allergen Immunotherapy |
| | The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) and the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) jointly accept responsibility for this publication. | | | The objective of “Allergen immunotherapy: a practice parameter” is to improve the practice of allergen immunotherapy for patients with allergic rhinitis, allergic asthma, and Hymenoptera sensitivity. | | | These clinical guidelines are designed to assist clinicians by providing a framework for the evaluation and treatment of patients and are not intended to replace a clinician’s judgment or establish a protocol for all patients. |
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| | Immunity & Ageing Full text The immunotherapy of Alzheimer's disease |
| | This is not surprising as the goal of today's drugs is to enhance existing cerebral function in Alzheimer patients and not to attack the basic causes of their progressive cognitive decline. | | | In contrast to today's drug therapy for Alzheimer's disease, immunotherapy is directed at the neurotoxic amyloid beta peptide that directly or indirectly leads to cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer's disease. | | | The potential benefit of anti-amyloid beta peptide antibodies in humans with sporadic Alzheimer's disease was also inferred from studies of cognitive function in a subset of actively immunized patients with Alzheimer's disease [9]. |
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| | Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg -- Abstract: Pollen Immunotherapy Inhibits T Helper 1 and 2 Cell Responses, but ... |
| | mechanisms related to the clinical efficacy of immunotherapy | | | Pollen Immunotherapy Inhibits T Helper 1 and 2 Cell Responses, but Suppression of T Helper 2 Cell Response Is a More Important Mechanism Related to the Clinical Efficacy | | | Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg -- Abstract: Pollen Immunotherapy Inhibits T Helper 1 and 2 Cell Responses, but Suppression of T Helper 2 Cell Response Is a More Important Mechanism Related to the Clinical Efficacy, January 2000, Kakinoki et al. |
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| | Your Animal's Health -- with Dr. Wendell O. Belfield |
| | The solution to allergies is strengthening the immune system that will enable it to permanently resist the invasion of all allergens. | | | It is not to be concluded that any immunotherapy will create a "super" canine or feline. | | | Whatever is in the gene pool, from the parents, will be enhanced and optimized. |
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| | ACS :: Immunotherapy |
| | There are several types of immunotherapy used to treat patients with metastatic cancer. | | | Immunotherapy helps a patient's immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells more effectively. |
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| | Medical Library Search |
| | Immunotherapy is effective in the treatment of allergic asthma. | | | Immunotherapy can help relieve the allergic reactions that trigger asthma episodes, thereby enhancing pulmonary function and decreasing the need for asthma medications. | | | Immunotherapy also reduces the inflammation that characterizes rhinitis and asthma. |
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| | Immunotherapy definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms |
| | 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. | | | Immunotherapy (also called biological therapy or biotherapy) often employs substances called biological response modifiers (BRMs). | | | Immunotherapy: Treatment to stimulate or restore the ability of the immune (defense) system to fight infection and disease. |
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| | Journal of Immunotherapy - home |
| | Journal of Immunotherapy is devoted to the publication of original articles on molecular, cellular, preclinical, and clinical aspects of biologicals and biological response modifiers related to the immunotherapy of cancer and other diseases. |
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| | NEJM -- Long-Term Clinical Efficacy of Grass-Pollen Immunotherapy |
| | NEJM -- Long-Term Clinical Efficacy of Grass-Pollen Immunotherapy | | | Varner, A. The Increase in Allergic Respiratory Diseases : Survival of the Fittest?. | | | Bousquet, J. Pro: Immunotherapy Is Clinically Indicated in the Management of Allergic Asthma. |
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