chemotherapy
IPA: kimoʊθˈɛrʌpi
noun
- (medicine) Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
- (oncology, most common usage) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.
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Examples of "chemotherapy" in Sentences
- Chemotherapy is the initial treatment of choice.
- He underwent chemotherapy in hope of overcoming the illness.
- Repeated courses of chemotherapy failed to cure the disease.
- In women, chemotherapy may damage the ovaries and cause infertility.
- In this circumstance, preoperative chemotherapy should be considered.
- Much work was instigated by the success of cisplatin in chemotherapy.
- It is therefore thought to increase the effectiveness of the chemotherapy.
- Choriocarcinoma is one of the tumors that is most sensitive to chemotherapy.
- He received chemotherapy and as of November 2009, the cancer is in remission.
- He coined the term chemotherapy and popularized the concept of a magic bullet.