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modality

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Pronunciation: /məˈdæləti/

modality

Definition

A method of treatment. For example, surgery and chemotherapy are treatment modalities.

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MART-1 antigen

ophthalmologist

rapid hormone cycling

BRAF kinase inhibitor

virulent

nonsense variant

cleaved

comedo carcinoma

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ATR-101

Mcl-1 inhibitor MIK665

Skinostelon

NA-17/MAGE-3.A2/NY-ESO-1 peptide vaccine

autologous anti-CS1 hinge-optimized CAR-4-1BB-EGFRt-expressing memory-enriched T cells

green tea

vancomycin

CDK9 inhibitor GFH009

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chromosomal instability

linkage analysis

heteroduplex analysis

attributable risk

massively parallel sequencing

CHIP

polygenic risk score

nonsense mutation

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