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US
/ˌkimoʊˈθɛɹəpi/
]
[ UK /kˌiːməʊθˈɛɹəpi/ ]
[ UK /kˌiːməʊθˈɛɹəpi/ ]
NOUN
- the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness)
How To Use chemotherapy In A Sentence
- These include chemoprophylaxis for patients with latent infection, and strategies for chemotherapy of dually infected individuals.
- The last is particularly common in the elderly and in immunocompromised patients undergoing anti-cancer chemotherapy.
- About half in each of these groups were treated with chemotherapy followed by five years of tamoxifen.
- Sanofi's treatment leads a new family of medicines known as parp inhibitors, designed to prevent breast cancer from repairing itself after being blasted by chemotherapy. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
- Cancer chemotherapy can cause severe nausea, vomiting, and abdominal discomfort, which can limit therapy.
- Different treatment methods - surgery, chemotherapy, or a combination of both - did not significantly affect survival.
- The shortage of the chemotherapy drug, called cytarabine, is so severe that major cancer and academic medical centers are rationing the drug while other hospitals have run out and are scrambling to get more. Leukemia Drug Shortage May Get Relief
- The patient was started on chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and dacarbazine administered as a continuous 7-day infusion, repeating every 21 days.
- However, combination chemotherapy does protect the artemisinin derivatives from the development of resistance.
- Onyx also has initiated a Phase III trial, known as ASPIRE, to study carfilzomib in combination with Revlimid and a low dose of dexamethasone, which is used to counteract some chemotherapy side effects, in patients with relapsed multiple myeloma. San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal