n. The treatment of disease by adjusting the body's immune response.
n. The treatment of cancer by improving the ability of the host to reject a tumour immunologically.
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n. therapy designed to produce immunity to a disease or to enhance resistance by the immune system
Word Usage
"The term immunotherapy is used to describe treatments that can be used to re-program the immune system of people (or animals) with allergies; usually this involves repeatedly exposing the immune system to small amounts of the allergen."