What is a BCG treatment?
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Last updated: Oct 20, 2011
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Is BCG treatment used to treat bladder cancer a form of chemotherapy?
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Linda Ackerman, R.N. has clinical experience in oncology, women's health, and medical nursing. She has been practicing for more than 20 years and is...
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Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)treatment is grouped with in cancer immunotherapy treatments. Cancer immunotherapy is an approach for treating cancer using our own immune system to fight the disease. Although the mechanism of BCG remains unclear, it appears that it stimulates an immune response or causes inflammation of the bladder wall that destroys cancer cells within the bladder.
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