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What does chemotherapy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word chemotherapy? Here's what it means.

Noun
  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.
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Conversely, patients whose genes efficiently counteracted chemotherapy and radiation treatment had shorter survival times overall.
Treatment options for cervical cancer include surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Prior radiation therapy was acceptable, but prior chemotherapy for metastatic disease was not allowed.
Many patients suffer physical complications, such as infections or toxicity from intensive chemotherapy and radiation treatment, he said.
For people wasting away from the side effects of chemotherapy, this could be a small bit of very good news, indeed.
The patient underwent preoperative chemotherapy and subsequent radical hysterectomy and bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy.

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