chemotherapy

Converse of object

• undergo: Up to 40 % of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy do not respond to the standard treatment for preventing vomiting.
• tolerate: However, children are thought to tolerate chemotherapy better than adults.

Preposition: for

• lymphoma: He has a key role in a number of different chemotherapy plans, including chemotherapy for lymphoma.

Adjective modifier

• adjuvant: The second part of the trial compared adjuvant chemotherapy with no adjuvant therapy.
• neoadjuvant: They all underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy with protracted infusion of FT alone or FT plus low doses of cisplatin.
• antimicrobial: He is an expert on the application of dyes in antimicrobial chemotherapy.
• cytotoxic: Thus far, no additional systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy has been necessary.
• intrathecal: Temporal central nervous system remission was induced by intrathecal chemotherapy only.
• platinum-based: Eight had progressive disease as the best response on their last platinum-based chemotherapy, and three had potentially sensitive tumors.

Modifies a noun

• regimen: RESULTS: Patients had received a median of four prior chemotherapy regimens.
• radiotherapy: For more information, please see the separate BUPA factsheets: Chemotherapy Radiotherapy How will I feel?
• drug: The chemotherapy drug is mixed with a dye made from poppy seed oil.
• side-effect: These show that addition of AS1404 to docetaxel chemotherapy has been generally well-tolerated, without exacerbation of chemotherapy side-effects.
• infusion: The chemotherapy infusion is given into the abdominal cavity through the catheter.

Noun used with modifier

• high-dose: At the completion of high-dose chemotherapy, all tumor markers had returned to normal in 6 patients.
• first-line: Hence, the potential of incorporating paclitaxel in first-line chemotherapy should be investigated.
• second-line: Perhaps, the most interesting role of second-line chemotherapy is to identify new potentially active drugs, which can be moved up-front.
• salvage: We reviewed the recent salvage chemotherapy trials of refractory diseases.
• radiotherapy: Chemotherapy and radiotherapy Chemotherapy drugs are often given together with surgery, particularly if the cancer has spread beyond the testicles.
• induction: Primary objective Does the addition of induction chemotherapy to CHART improve overall survival over CHART alone?