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Chemotherapy (often
abbreviated chemo,
sometimes CTX and CTx) is the type of
cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer
drugs (chemotherapeutic...
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Antimicrobial chemotherapy is the
clinical application of
antimicrobial agents to
treat infectious diseases.
There are five
types of
antimicrobial chemotherapy:[citation...
- A
chemotherapy regimen is a
regimen for
chemotherapy,
defining the
drugs to be used,
their dosage, the
frequency and
duration of treatments, and other...
- CHOP is the
acronym for a
chemotherapy regimen used in the
treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. CHOP
consists of: Cyclophosphamide, an
alkylating agent which...
- virus-****ociated
lymphoproliferative diseases.
Hodgkin lymphoma may be
treated with
chemotherapy,
radiation therapy, and stem-cell transplantation. The
choice of treatment...
- smoking,
ionizing radiation,
petrochemicals (such as benzene),
prior chemotherapy, and Down syndrome.
People with a
family history of
leukemia are also...
- The era of
cancer chemotherapy began in the 1940s with the
first use of
nitrogen mustards and
folic acid
antagonist drugs. The
targeted therapy revolution...
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Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) is a type of
hyperthermia therapy used in
combination with
surgery in the
treatment of
advanced abdominal...
- ICE in the
context of
chemotherapy is an
acronym for one of the
chemotherapy regimens, used in
salvage treatment of
relapsed or
refractory non-Hodgkin's...
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although chemotherapy has been used
increasingly both
preoperatively (neoadjuvant
chemotherapy) and
postoperatively (adjuvant
chemotherapy). The most...
