CHEMOTHERAPY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does chemotherapy mean? 

• CHEMOTHERAPY (noun)
  The noun CHEMOTHERAPY has 1 sense:

1. the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness)

  Familiarity information: CHEMOTHERAPY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEMOTHERAPY (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 

This could protect non-cancerous cells from the oxidative damage caused by radiation and chemotherapy.

(Alpha-lipoic Acid-Palladium/Vitamin/Mineral Supplement, NCI Thesaurus)

A substance that is being studied for its ability to protect normal cells from the side effects of chemotherapy and prevent peripheral neuropathy (numbness, tingling, burning, and weakness in the hands or feet).

(Alpha-lipoic acid, NCI Dictionary)

A drug used to prevent nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy.

(Aloxi, NCI Dictionary)

AMG 531 is being studied as a way to treat low platelet counts caused by chemotherapy.

(AMG 531, NCI Dictionary)

A drug used as a chemoprotective drug to control some of the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

(Amifostine, NCI Dictionary)

Other treatments include chemotherapy and radiation, biologic, and targeted therapies.

(Melanoma, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

It is also being studied in an oral or gel form in the treatment of nerve pain caused by chemotherapy.

(Amitriptyline, NCI Dictionary)

Local occlusion of selected blood vessels in conjunction with intrahepatic chemotherapy administration, results in elevated intracellular hepatocyte drug concentrations and enhances localized cytotoxicity against hepatic tumor lesions.

(Amilomer, NCI Thesaurus)

The regimen consists of chemotherapy with or without radiation and is intended to kill cancerous cells before the transplantation and to provide immunosuppression to prevent the rejection of the donor's stem cells.

(Allogeneic Conditioning, NCI Thesaurus)

It typically manifests several years after initiation of single or multi-agent chemotherapy with alkylators.

(Alkylating Agent-Related Myelodysplastic Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)