chemotherapy

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Noun

chemotherapy

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.

Translations

• French: chimiothérapie
• German: Chemotherapie
• Russian: химиотерапи́я
• Spanish: quimioterapia

Translations

• French: chimiothérapie
• Italian: chemioterapia
• Portuguese: quimioterapia
• Russian: химиотерапи́я
• Spanish: quimioterapia

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