chemotherapy
Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
Other meanings
chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.
Related words
- chemotherapeutic
- biochemotherapy
- chronochemotherapy
- electrochemotherapy
- immunochemotherapy
- monochemotherapy
- nonchemotherapy
- photochemotherapy
- polychemotherapy
- postchemotherapy
- prechemotherapy
- radiochemotherapy
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