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chemotherapy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | therapy |
| Has types | chrysotherapy |
| Derivation | chemotherapeutic, chemotherapeutical |
Examples of chemotherapy
chemotherapy
An Action volunteer is keeping her when the man is sick because of chemotherapy.
From the post-gazette.com
He's in good spirits, but the chemotherapy and radiation have sapped his energy.
From the bostonherald.com
Baldness also can be caused by hypothyroidism, iron deficiency and chemotherapy.
From the stltoday.com
Meanwhile, the patient was treated with chemotherapy for both types of leukemia.
From the stltoday.com
Christian was diagnosed with bone cancer and will start chemotherapy on Tuesday.
From the ocregister.com
In 2009 he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and underwent chemotherapy.
From the timesunion.com
At the time, Layer was undergoing chemotherapy treatments and had lost his hair.
From the thestate.com
Lung cancer and three rounds of chemotherapy have taken their toll on Rudy Lugo.
From the dailynews.com
The senator will now undergo a regimen of chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
From the voanews.com
- The use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness)
- Chemotherapy, in its most general sense, is the treatment of a disease by chemicals especially by killing micro-organisms or cancerous cells. ...
- Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state; Most common usage: chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient
- Treatment with anticancer drugs.
- Treatment of malignant lesions with drugs that impair, or stop, their cellular proliferation.
- Treatment with drugs to destroy cancer cells. Chemotherapy is often used with surgery or radiation to treat cancer when the cancer has spread, when it has come back (recurred), or when there is a strong chance that it could recur.
- Medications given to kill or slow the growth of cancer cells.
- Literally - any therapy done with chemicals. It had come to be thought of as drug therapy for cancer only, although taking penicillin for that lung infection is also chemotherapy.
- The administration of oral or intravenous anticancer medications.
