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CHEMOTHERAPY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("chemotherapy" is a kind of...):
therapy ((medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chemotherapy"):
chrysotherapy (the use of chemicals containing gold for treating diseases (such as rheumatoid arthritis))
Derivation:
chemotherapeutic; chemotherapeutical (of or relating to chemotherapy)
Context examples:
Red blood cell transfusions are commonly given to critically ill children for conditions such as trauma, cancer chemotherapy, intraoperative bleeding, and chronic conditions such as sickle cell disease and thalassemia.
(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)
Treatments include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, stem cell transplants, and targeted therapy.
(Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
Treatments include chemotherapy, other drugs, radiation therapy, stem cell transplants, and targeted therapy.
(Acute Myeloid Leukemia, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
This type of AML is associated with good response to chemotherapy and high complete remission rate.
(Acute Myeloid Leukemia with t(8;21)(q22;q22); RUNX1-RUNX1T1, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)
Adjuvant therapy may include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, targeted therapy, or biological therapy.
(Adjuvant therapy, NCI Dictionary)
An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used to treat childhood acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
(ADE, NCI Dictionary)
May also be necessary in order to counteract the effect of various chemotherapy treatments.
(Menopausal Symptoms Attenuation, NCI Thesaurus)
Treatment may include surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy.
(Mesothelioma, NIH: National Cancer Institute)
People at higher risk are over 60, have had chemotherapy or radiation therapy, or have been exposed to certain chemicals.
(Myelodysplastic Syndromes, NIH National Cancer Institute)
Myeloablative chemotherapy is usually followed by a bone marrow or stem cell transplant to rebuild the bone marrow.
(Myeloablative chemotherapy, NCI Dictionary)
