• Chemotherapy

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    - + therapy + -

    Full definition of chemotherapy

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    chemotherapy

    (countable and uncountable; plural chemotherapys)
    1. (medicine) Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
    2. (oncology, most common usage) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.

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