Chemotherapy is the treatment of a disease or condition with chemicals that have a specific effect on its cause, such as a microorganism or cancer cell. The first modern therapeutic chemical was derived from a synthetic dye. The sulfonamide drugs...

Chemotherapy is treatment of a disease or medical condition with chemicals that attack the cause of the medical condition. The term is most commonly used to describe treatment of cancer with anticancer drugs. Chemotherapy destroys cancer cells in a...

Chemotherapy is the treatment of disease with chemicals or drugs and is most commonly associated with treating cancer. The term was first coined in the early 1900s by the German bacteriologist, Paul Ehrlich, after he discovered a dye called Trypan red...

The medical treatment of a disease through the use of chemicals. The term is most frequently used in application to the treatment of cancer (cancer chemotherapy) but can equally be applied to the treatment of bacterial infections through the use of...

Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. In its modern-day use, it refers to cytotoxic drugs used to treat cancer or the combination of these drugs into a standardized treatment regimen. In its non-oncological use, the term may...

Chemotherapy is the use of anticancer (cytotoxic) drugs to destroy cancer cells (including leukemia and lymphomas). There are more than 50 different chemotherapy drugs and some are given on their own, but often several drugs may be combined (this is known as combination chemotherapy)....

What is chemotherapy? "Chemotherapy in this context means the use of drugs that target and kill rapidly dividing cells, which, of course, cancer cells are," said Monk. By their nature, these drugs are "toxic," but in this context it is a good...

Breast cancer survivors may face increased risk of heart disease _ and doctors are debating if it's time to largely abandon a chemotherapy mainstay that is one reason for the problem.Drugs called anthracyclines are a breast chemo staple despite a well-known risk: They weaken some...

Scientists reported promising gains Monday for treating colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver, showing that chemotherapy before and after surgery to remove liver tumors can help keep the disease in check.The study is the first to scientifically test an approach that many doctors...