Usually means: Immune cell killing cancer cells.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Lymphokine-activated killer cell)

noun:  In cell biology, a lymphokine-activated killer cell (also known as a LAK cell) is a white blood cell, consisting mostly of natural killer, natural killer T, and T cells that has been stimulated to kill tumor cells, but because of the function in which they activate, and the cells they can successfully target, they are classified as different than the classical natural killer and T lymphocyte systems.


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