Chemotherapy, in its most general sense, refers to treatment of disease by chemicals that kill cells, both good and bad, but specifically those of micro-organisms or cancer. In popular usage, it refers to antineoplastic drugs used to treat cancer or the combination of these drugs into a cytotoxic standardized treatment regimen. In its non-oncological use, the term may...
Chemotherapy
Medicine
Used To Treat:
- Cancer
- Breast cancer
- Bladder cancer
- Colorectal cancer
- Melanoma
- Endometrial cancer
- Leukemia
- Lung cancer
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
- Ovarian cancer
Diseases with this Risk Factor:
- Leukemia
- Chronic myelogenous leukemia
- Acute myeloid leukemia
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
- Necrotizing fasciitis