Chemotherapy (14501 bytes)
1: ...om other forms of treatment, such as [[surgery]]. Chemotherapy dates at least as far back as the use, by the Ind...
3: ...Antibiotics]] are referred to as '''antibacterial chemotherapy''', but in medical practice this word is only use...
5: Other uses of chemotherapy agents (including the ones mentioned below) are t...
7: == Chemotherapy for cancer ==
14: ...ding [[Hodgkin's disease]]) are more sensitive to chemotherapy, as a larger proportion of the tumour cells are u...

Mesna (735 bytes)
3: ...toethane sulfonate) is an adjuvant used in cancer chemotherapy involving [[cyclophosphamide]] and [[ifosfamide]]...
5: ...eceives ifosfamide or cyclophosphamide for cancer chemotherapy. These two anticancer agents, ''in vivo'', may be...

Adjuvant (1774 bytes)
13: ...ally surgery. For example, [[radiotherapy]] or [[chemotherapy]] given after surgery for a breast cancer are bot...
15: ...ore removal of a breast is considered neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
17: ...juvant refer to any additional treatment (usually chemotherapy) given before or after radiotherapy, respectively...

Radiation oncologist (485 bytes)
1: ...of treatment. In some countries, radiotherapy and chemotherapy are controlled by a single oncologist who is a "c...

Bone marrow suppression (1146 bytes)
1: ... [[azathioprine]]. The risk is especially high in chemotherapy for [[leukemia|leukaemia]]
5: ...ase]]. Bone marrow suppression due to anti-cancer chemotherapy is much harder to treat and often involves hospit...

Insulin potentiation therapy (2214 bytes)
1: ...ulin in combination with other drugs, including [[chemotherapy]] agents. IPT dates from 1930, and has been in u...
3: ...tient's blood sugar, which is thought to also aid chemotherapy uptake and effectiveness.
7: ... cancer can be significantly affected by existing chemotherapy drugs, then insulin potentiation therapy may be e...

Disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (861 bytes)
3: ...rapy|chemotherapeutics]] but use a side-effect of chemotherapy - '''immune suppression''' - as its main therapeu...

Phenotil (261 bytes)
1: ...ucination]]s and violence and the [[nausea]] of [[chemotherapy]], [[radiation therapy]] and [[surgery]].

Vincent T. DeVita, Jr., MD (1676 bytes)
7: ...ltimately led to an effective regimen of curative chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease and diffuse large cell lymp...
9: ...George Canellos, DeVita developed the combination chemotherapy CMF, which still remains a useful therapy for bre...

Growth curve (3046 bytes)
10: ..., the rate at which [[tumor]]s shrink following [[chemotherapy]] is related to the rate of tumor growth before t...
13: ... the chemotherapy drug begin to grow rapidly. The chemotherapy is no longer useful and is discontinued.

Pemetrexed (1175 bytes)
1: ... similar to [[folic acid]] and is in the class of chemotherapy drugs called folate [[antimetabolites]]. It work...

CMF (350 bytes)
2: * [[CMF (therapy)]]: A [[chemotherapy]] regime comprising [[cyclophosphamide]], [[metho...

Secondary neoplasm (332 bytes)
1: ... following certain cancer treatments, including [[chemotherapy]] and [[radiotherapy]].

Vincristine (2576 bytes)
37: ...inca Rosea'' and hence its name). It is used in [[chemotherapy]].
46: Vincristine is used in various types of chemotherapy regimens for tumours such as [[multiple myeloma]]...
52: ...dividualchemotherapydrugs/Vincristine Vincristine chemotherapy]

Hemangiosarcoma (2029 bytes)
8: ...one, although a study involving splenectomies and chemotherapy was underway on the east coast of the [[United St...

Choriocarcinoma (432 bytes)
1: ...rare [[cancer]] of the [[placenta]], curable by [[chemotherapy]].

Azathioprine (1716 bytes)
3: ...' is a [[chemotherapy]] drug, now rarely used for chemotherapy but more for [[immunosuppression]] in [[organ tra...

AC (1682 bytes)
6: ...]]''' and '''[[cyclophosphamide]]''', see '''[[AC chemotherapy]]'''

Hormonal therapy (1623 bytes)
6: ...reatment have removed the gross primary tumor and chemotherapy or radiation therapy have treated systemic and re...
8: ...llary nodes removed surgically, received systemic chemotherapy and regional radiation, and was placed on tamoxif...

Neutropenia (4351 bytes)
52: ** [[Chemotherapy]]
59: ...te-colony stimulating factor) can be effective in chemotherapy patients and some other causes.

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