The use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness)

Usage examples of chemotherapy.

Before I entered the telomod program, my old doctors tried multiple drug antimetabolite chemotherapy.

Some cancers require surgery, while others are best treated with radiation, chemotherapy, or some combination of all of them.

Most chemotherapy works by killing the rapidly growing cancers as they try to grow, but this also hurts normal cells.

It tended to strike men between the ages of 18 and 25 and was considered very treatable as cancers go, thanks to advances in chemotherapy, but early diagnosis and intervention were key.

We gave him fluids intravenously, and the doctors did some more tests and gave him some more chemotherapy.

Some doctors become really upset when patients refuse radiation or chemotherapy.

The doctors were shooting a substance called 5FU chemotherapy up to Mrs.

Ben, who by that time had an experimental chemotherapy pump affixed to his belt through which medication flowed throughout the day, persuaded Joel, then twentyeight, to take one class at the nearby State University of New York at Farmingdale.

On the Monday the few Spanish who were about walked with the shuffling steps of chemotherapy patients, the plaza was still littered with fragments of exploded rocket and other bits of firework.

Barbs was diagnosed by then, and the chemotherapy seemed to have worked, though she still felt sick.

Bo Michaels was completely out of her system, like waiting for the last molecule of chemotherapy to clear the bloodstream before feeling whole again.

Then, what the hell, throw in a little Chemotherapy if needed and likely at this point die anyway in a couple of years.

The diagnosis was simply that Chemotherapy could extend his life at significant toxic reaction and discomfort, but that is all that could be done.

M: In any case, he has opted to take chemotherapy and it has extended his life.

After more than ten years of trying to deal with politics and politicians in a professional manner, I have finally come to the harsh understanding that there is no way at all -- not even for a doctor of chemotherapy with total access to the whole spectrum of legal and illegal drugs, the physical constitution of a mule shark and a brain as rare and sharp and original as the Sloat diamond -- to function as a political journalist without abandoning the whole concept of a decent breakfast.