cell therapy
nounUK /ˈsɛl ˈθɛrəpi/
US /ˈsɛl ˈθɛrəpi/
Cell therapy is a way to treat sickness by putting healthy cells into a person's body.
The doctor used cell therapy to help the sick boy get better.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. A medical treatment in which living cells are grown or changed outside the body and then given to a patient.
The hospital opened a lab to make cell therapies for cancer patients.
3. The branch of medicine that studies and develops treatments using cells.
She studies cell therapy at the university.
4. A type of advanced medicine that uses a patient's own cells to fight disease.
His cell therapy used his own immune cells to attack the tumor.