BCG

BCG. A type of bacteria used in cancer treatment to stimulate the immune system. It is also used to vaccinate against tuberculosis.
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BCG (bacille Calmette-Gu�rin) vaccine
A vaccine that offers some protection against tuberculosis. It's now rarely used in the U.S. because it doesn't give total protection.
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BCG is a vaccine for TB. This vaccine is not widely used in the United States, but it is often given to infants and small children in other countries where TB is common. BCG vaccine does not always protect people from getting TB.
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TICE BCG (BCG [bacillus Calmette-Gurin] vaccine, TICE strain) Indications: (1) for the treatment of bladder cancer in situ, (2) for intravesical instillation as adjunct treatment of stage Ta or T1 papillary tumors of the bladder.
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Intravesical therapy with thiotepa, mitomycin, doxorubicin, or bacillus Calmette Gurin (BCG) is most often used in patients with multiple tumors or recurrent tumors or as a prophylactic measure in high-risk patients after TUR.
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A vaccine, BCG, is available and has been of some benefit in preventing TB. It's not widely used in the United States and is more often administered in countries where TB is common.
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An antituberculosis vaccine, bacille Calmette-Gurin, or BCG vaccine, was developed in France in 1908.
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Intravesical therapy with BCG can eliminate carcinoma in situ in some patients.
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clinical trials of promising therapies, one using oral therapies—pentosan polysulfate sodium (Elmiron) and hydroxyzine hydrochloride (Atarax)— and the other administering intravesical treatment using Bacillus Calmette-Gurin (BCG).
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Pacis (Bacillus Calmette-Gurin (BCG) Livefor Cancer )
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(Nov-Onxol; Onxol; Paclitaxel Novaplus; Taxol)
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Vaccination with bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) reduces the severity of TB if you should be exposed to it, but this immunization isn't used in the United States. Perhaps your friend was confusing this with TB testing.
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All the usual immunisation procedures may safely be given, but it is worth remembering that a patch of psoriasis may come up at any site where the skin has been 'injured', for example following inimunisation with BCG.
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