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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)

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