DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Adjuvant vaccine
Vaccine
A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe or its toxins. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as foreign, destroy it, and "remember" it, so that the immune system can more easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it later encounters. Vaccines can be prophylactic (e.g. to prevent or ameliorate the effects of a future infection by any natural or "wild" pathogen), or therapeutic (e...
Adjuvant vaccine - List of case studies
- Clear Cell Carcinoma of the Kidney
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close observation every few months or participating in an adjuvant vaccine trial or monoclonal antibody therapy trial. ...
- Treatments
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Adenocarcinoma debulking Adequate rest Adjuvant Adjuvant chemotherapy Adjuvant hormonal therapy ... Adjuvant therapy Adjuvant treatment Adjuvant vaccine Advance male sling by AMS Agents of pentasaccharides Air ...
- Cystic Neoplasms of the Pancreas
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should receive, at the very least, the pneumococcal vaccine. Some authors recommend that the adult receive all three vaccinations ... tumors that harbor invasive malignancy, appropriate adjuvant chemo and/or radiation therapy may be justified. In these cases, ...
- Melanoma with metastases
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the stage of the disease (pT2a N1a -> IIIA), an adjuvant treatment with Interferon as part of the Mel. A. The study was ... anti CTLA-4 monoclonal anti-bodies, dendetric cell vaccine therapy and heat shock protein (HSP) vaccines are all in different ...
- Drugs
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D Actinomycin-D and ifosfamide) Adenexae Adjuvant Tamoxifen Adjuvant chemotherapy Adjuvant treatment with ... (Prednisone) Deltacrin solution Dendetric cell vaccine therapy Depalgos Depomedrol Depsipetide ...