Cancer immunotherapy (sometimes called immuno-oncology) is the artificial stimulation of the immune system to treat cancer, improving on the system's natural ability to fight cancer (wikipedia). This class indicates whether the patient received some sort of radiation therapy as part of their cancer treatment.

Attributes
«CS» Code	immunotherapy	Indicates the type of immunotherapy administered as first course of treatment or subsequent treatment. If immunotherapy was not administered, then this item records the reason it was not administered to the patient. Immunotherapy consists of biological or chemical agents that alter the immune system or change the host's response to the tumor cells. Possible values are None; Immunotherapy; Not admin/contraindicated; Pt died prior to tx; Not admin, no reason given; Refused by pt; Unknown if admin; Unknown, death cert; etc

Attributes inherited from  FHIM::OncologyRegistry::CancerTreatment

treatmentDate,  treatmentFacility

 immunotherapy

Public «CS» Code immunotherapy

Indicates the type of immunotherapy administered as first course of treatment or subsequent treatment. If immunotherapy was not administered, then this item records the reason it was not administered to the patient. Immunotherapy consists of biological or chemical agents that alter the immune system or change the host's response to the tumor cells. Possible values are None; Immunotherapy; Not admin/contraindicated; Pt died prior to tx; Not admin, no reason given; Refused by pt; Unknown if admin; Unknown, death cert; etc

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Properties:

Aggregation	None
Alias
Association
Association End
Class	Immunotherapy
Datatype
Default
Default Value
Is Composite	false
Is Derived	false
Is Derived Union	false
Is Leaf	false
Is Ordered	false
Is Read Only	false
Is Static	false
Is Unique	true
Keywords
Lower	1
Lower Value	(1)
Multiplicity	1
Name	immunotherapy
Name Expression
Namespace	Immunotherapy
Opposite
Owner	Immunotherapy
Owning Association
Owning Template Parameter
Qualified Name	FHIM::OncologyRegistry::Immunotherapy::immunotherapy
Stereotype
Template Parameter
Type	«CS» Code
Upper	1
Upper Value	(1)
Visibility	Public