Coley's toxins
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coley-s-toxins-177-7896383
title:
Coley's toxins
text:
Coley's toxins is a mixture containing toxins filtered from killed bacteria of species Streptococcus pyogenes and Serratia marcescens, named after William Coley, a surgical oncologist at the Hospital for Special Surgery who developed the mixture in the late 19th century as a treatment for cancer. Their use in the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries represented a precursor to modern cancer immunotherapy, although at that time their mechanism of action was not completely understood. There is
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description:
Bacterial toxins formerly used in a precursor analogue of modern immunotherapy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coley%27s_toxins
date created:
2006-03-26T23:36:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T02:49:01Z
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