单词 | virotherapy |
释义 | virotherapyn. Medicine. The treatment of cancer (or, esp. in early use, other diseases) by deliberate infection of a tumour or affected individual with a virus.Viruses used in virotherapy are now typically genetically modified to kill or induce the death of diseased cells. ΚΠ 1951 H. Yaoi in Yokohama Med. Bull. June 145 I, together with you, would like very much to continue our works to bring this ‘virotherapy’ as far as we can in order to fill up the gaps, existing among chemotherapy, antibiotics-therapy and serotherapy. 1998 C. Gomez-Manzano et al. in E. A. Chiocca & X. O. Breakefield Gene Therapy Neurological Disorders & Brain Tumors xii. 221 One of the main targets of virotherapy is to discover or generate a virus with host ranges restricted to tumor cells. 2013 Times (Nexis) 15 June 17 Virotherapy is typically used alongside conventional treatments and aside from a bout of flu-like symptoms, severe side-effects appear to be rare. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1951 |
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