Chemotherapy

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Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat diseases. The word "chemotherapy" is used a lot to talk about a medicine used to help cure cancer called cytotoxic.

When people talk about chemotherapy outside the treatment of cancer, they may also be talking about a kind of medicine called antibiotics. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, one of the best-known antibiotics.

Chemotherapy can also be use to treat autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis. Other uses are the treatment of Hepatitis, which is caused by a virus, or to suppress the reaction to transplanted organs.

Unfortunately, chemotherapy (related to cancer) has side effects,