Look up: Chemotherapy

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   Chemotherapy
   A treatment for cancers that involves ad- ministering chemicals toxic to malignant cells.
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   chemotherapy
   The use of chemical(s) (e.g., antibiotics or fungicides) for the treatment of a disease.
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   Chemotherapy
   The treatment of a plant or animal with chemicals to destroy or inactivate a pathogen or parasite without seriously affecting the host.
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   Chemotherapy
   Medical term when taking prescribed drugs as a treatment for a health problem. They are given by injection, or oral form, such as taking a pill, or liquid medicine.
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   chemotherapy
   [n] - the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness)
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   Chemotherapy
   Treatment of malignant lesions with drugs that impair, or stop, their cellular proliferation.
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   chemotherapy
   (Learning Modules / Psychology / Measuring the unmeasurable) Treating illness using drugs.
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   Chemotherapy
   Drug treatment. In cancer treatment the term usually means treatment with anti-cancer drugs. There are many different types of cancer chemotherapy and different ways of giving the drugs.
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   Chemotherapy
   Using toxic chemicals to treat a patient
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    Chemotherapy
    the treatment of infections or cancer with drugs that act on disease-producing organisms or cancerous tissue; may also affect normal cells
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    Chemotherapy
    Chemotherapy is a treatment of an illness or disease with a chemical substance, e.g. in the treatment of cancer.
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    Chemotherapy
    The treatment of disease with chemicals, such as cytotoxic (cancer destroying) drugs.
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    Chemotherapy
    A type of treatment of malignant diseases by anti-cancer drugs
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    Chemotherapy
    The application of cytotoxic (cell poisoning) agents to the patient through oral, injection or organ infusion methods in order to cure cancer. The dose administered is systemic and hence affects the whole being, resulting in wide spread side effects and is frequently delivered in fractions as the total dose would injure the patient if administered in a single treatment.
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    Chemotherapy
    Our Chemotherapy Main Article provides a comprehensive look at the who, what, when and how of Chemotherapy Chemotherapy: 1. In the original sense, a chemical that binds to and specifically kills microbes or tumor cells. The term chemotherapy was coined in this regard by Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915). 2. In oncology, drug therapy for cancer. Also called ...
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    Chemotherapy
    Drug treatment, usually meaning with anti-cancer drugs. A course of treatment notmally lasts several months.
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    chemotherapy
    Treatment of a disease with drugs that are designed to kill the causative organism or, in the case of tumours, the abnormal cells.
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    chemotherapy
    <pharmacology, oncology> 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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    chemotherapy
    noun the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness)
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    Chemotherapy
    `Chemotherapy` is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. In its modern-day use, it refers to cytotoxic drugs used to treat cancer or the combination of these drugs into a standardized treatment regimen. In its non-oncological use, the term may also refer to antibiotics (`antibacterial chemotherapy`). In that sense, the first modern chemotherapeutic agent was Paul Ehrlich's arsphenamine, an arsenic compound discovered in 1909 and used t...
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    chemotherapy
    (ke″mo-ther´ә-pe) the treatment of illness by chemical means (medication); the term was first applied to the treatment of infectious diseases, but it now is used primarily to refer to treatment of mental illness and cancer. adj., chemotherapeu´tic., adj.
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    chemotherapy
    the treatment of diseases by chemical compounds. Chemotherapeutic drugs were originally those employed against infectious microbes, but the term has ... [27 related articles]
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    chemotherapy
    the treatment of disease by means of chemicals that have a specific toxic effect upon the disease - producing microorganisms or that selectively destroy cancerous tissue.
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    chemotherapy
    chemotherapy, chemotherapeutics 1. The treatment of disease, especially of parasitic infections or cancer, by means of chemical substances which act selectively on micro-organisms or malignant tissue. 2. Treatment of disease by means of chemical substances or drugs; usually used in reference to neoplastic disease (a new and abnormal formation of tissue; such as, a tumor or othe...
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    chemotherapy
    Treatment of disease by means of chemical substances or drugs; usually used in reference to neoplastic disease. See Also: pharmacotherapy
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