• A therapy designed to induce changes in a patient's immune status.
  CDISC Terminology
  Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
• Manipulation of the host's immune system in treatment of disease. It includes both active and passive immunization as well as immunosuppressive therapy to prevent graft rejection.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
• Therapy designed to induce changes in a patient's immune status in order to treat disease.
  NCI Thesaurus
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• Treating disease by enhancing or suppressing the body's immune system.
  Harvard Dictionary of Health Terms
  Harvard Medical Publishing, 2011
• Treatment to boost or restore the ability of the immune system to fight cancer, infections, and other diseases. Also used to lessen certain side effects that may be caused by some cancer treatments. Agents used in immunotherapy include monoclonal antibodies, growth factors, and vaccines. These agents may also have a direct antitumor effect.
  NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• Use of immunologic agents to therapeutically enhance or suppress the immune system; includes immunization, vaccines, artificial immunosuppression, treatment with cytokines or immunoconjugates, and lymphocyte deletion therapy; in addition also index the specific disorder therapy and immunologic agent used.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• Immunotherapy is the use of drugs that mimic or modify components of the immune system (such as tumor antigens and immune checkpoints --see also Overview of the Immune System) to fight disease. Immunotherapy is rapidly evolving, especially in the field of cancer treatment.
  Merck Manuals
  Merck & Co., Inc., 2020