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Cell Therapy

Preventive and Immunologic Intervention

Cell therapy is a treatment in which viable cells are injected, grafted, or implanted into a patient to produce a therapeutic effect. It covers approaches such as transplanting T-cells that fight cancer cells through the immune system and grafting stem cells to repair or restore diseased tissue.

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Cell therapy is a therapy in which viable cells are injected, grafted or implanted into a patient in order to effectuate a medicinal effect, for example, by transplanting T-cells capable of fighting cancer cells via cell-mediated immunity in the course of immunotherapy, or grafti
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