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(PROH-venj)
| | A vaccine made from immune system cells collected from a patient with prostate cancer. The cells are treated in the laboratory with a growth factor attached to a protein found on prostate cancer cells. Provenge injected into patients may stimulate T lymphocytes to kill tumor cells that express the prostate protein. Also called APC8015 and Sipuleucel-T. |
| Previous Definitions: | protocol, proton, proton beam radiation therapy, proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, protozoal | | Next Definitions: | proximal, Proxinium, pruritus, PS-341, PSA |
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