chemotherapy
Saykee-moh-THER-uh-peeUS/ˌkimoʊˈθɛɹəpi//ˌkiːməʊˈθɛɹəpi/
- 1Medicine that uses strong drugs to kill cancer cells or stop them from spreading in the body.
Like using strong cleaning chemicals to wipe out germs, except the medicine targets cancer cells inside the body.
After surgery, she started chemotherapy to kill any cancer cells left behind.
The doctors gave him chemotherapy every three weeks.
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- 2Treatment that uses chemicals or drugs to fight a disease in the body.
Like sending in chemicals as soldiers to attack whatever is making the body sick.
Doctors used chemotherapy to clear the patient's stubborn infection.
Before modern drugs, early chemotherapy relied on compounds made with arsenic.
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Origin
It comes from "chemo-" plus "therapy."