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Pronunciation: /ˈɛfɪˌkæsi/

efficacy

Definition

Effectiveness. In medicine, the ability of an intervention (for example, a drug or surgery) to produce the desired beneficial effect.

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atrophic vaginitis

GTD

stereotactic ablative body radiation therapy

simple fibroadenoma

aorta

antithymocyte globulin

Declomycin

stage IVB salivary gland cancer

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betrixaban

autologous anti-PSMA CAR/CD2/dnTGF-BRII/PD-1:CD28 switch receptor-expressing T cells TmPSMA-02

siltuximab

neoantigen-based therapeutic cancer vaccine GRT-R904

autologous CD171-specific CAR-CD28 zeta-4-1-BB-EGFRt-expressing T lymphocytes

carbon C14 EGFR inhibitor ASP8273

imexon

cyclin B1 peptide-pulsed autologous dendritic cell vaccine

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genetic susceptibility

genotyping

chromosomal instability

unaffected individual

epigenetic variant

antioncogene

double heterozygosity

family cancer syndrome

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