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Definition of Chemotherapy

1. Noun. The use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness).

Definition of Chemotherapy

1. Noun. (medicine) Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state. ¹

2. Noun. (oncology most common usage) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chemotherapy

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Medical Definition of Chemotherapy

1. The treatment of disease by means of chemicals that have a specific toxic effect upon the disease producing microorganisms (antibiotics) or that selectively destroy cancerous tissue (anticancer therapy). (12 May 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chemotherapy

Literary usage of Chemotherapy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Immunity, Methods of Diagnosis and Therapy and Their Practical Application by Julius Bernhard Citron (1914)
"chemotherapy OF MALIGNANT TUMORS. CONCLUSION. Serum therapy proved the fundamental fact ... Thus far the most favorable results of chemotherapy have been ..."

2. Therapeutics by Armand Darier (1912)
"chemotherapy. SALVARSAN. The modern tendency in therapeutics may be expressed in two essential principles : i. No more empiricism or at least as little of ..."

3. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"Since in many tumor sys- been shown that tumors with the id doubling times are the most sen- chemotherapy, the idea emerges that iors should be most ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1916)
"A Contribution to the chemotherapy of Tuberculosis.—KOGA (Jour. Ex per. Mrd., 1916, xxiv, 107) writes concerning a preparation of copper and potassium ..."

5. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1918)
"chemotherapy IN TUBERCULOSIS * DR. PAUL A. LEWIS i The Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania AFTER more than ten years of successful ..."

6. A Practical Text-book of Infection, Immunity, and Specific Therapy: With by John Albert Kolmer (1915)
"PRINCIPLES OF chemotherapy Organotropism and ... The guiding principle in chemotherapy is to imitate nature's method of overcoming an infection by the aid ..."

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