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Meaning of abscopal by felipe lorenzo del rio





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abscopal
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From the Latin prefix ab , outside and scopus , white , target , target : which is outside the target . In medicine there is talk of abscopal effect, an expression coined by Robin Mole in 1953, to signal therapeutic effects outside the radiated area in cancer patients, such as shrinking or disappearing tumors when the immune system is effectively activated.

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