chemotherapy
chemotherapy
Definition
chemo·thera·py (--t̸her′ə pē)
noun
the prevention or treatment of disease by the administration of drugs
Etymology: Ger chemotherapie
che′mo·ther′a·peu′·tic adjective
che′mo·ther′a·peu′·ti·cally adverb
che′mo·ther′a·pist noun
chemotherapy
Usage Examples
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?
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