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What is the noun for chemotherapy?

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chemotherapy
  1. (medicine) Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
  2. (oncology) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Prior radiation therapy was acceptable, but prior chemotherapy for metastatic disease was not allowed.”
      “Your doctor can help you understand the changes you're about to go through as you start your chemotherapy or radiation treatment.”
      “For people wasting away from the side effects of chemotherapy, this could be a small bit of very good news, indeed.”
chemotoxicity
  1. toxicity due to chemical effects, especially to the effects of chemotherapy
chemotherapeutic
  1. (medicine) A chemical agent used in chemotherapy
chemotherapist
  1. One who administers chemotherapy.
  2. Examples:
    1. “After medical assessment of Tuleyev, a chemotherapist of the National Cancer Center on January 18, 2014, insisted on chemotherapy course at the Center.”
chemotherapeutics
  1. plural of chemotherapeutic
chemotherapists
  1. plural of chemotherapist
  2. Examples:
    1. “People using these drugs were called chemotherapists and are now called medical oncologists or cancer specialists.”
chemotoxicities
  1. plural of chemotoxicity
chemotherapies
  1. plural of chemotherapy
  2. Examples:
    1. “The most common effects of toxicity from chemotherapies for advanced colorectal cancer are diarrhoea, mucositis, asthenia, and neutropenia.”
      “Like tiny divining rods, these drugs hunt down only diseased cells, avoiding the shotgun approach of past chemotherapies.”
      “Current chemotherapies for cancer are mostly cytotoxics with serious side effects and high incidence of drug resistance.”
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