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,
- Loss of hair
- Weakened Immune system
- Nausea and Vomiting
Pathology: tumors (and related structures), cancer, and oncology (C00-D48) |
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Benign - Premalignant - Carcinoma in situ - Malignant |
Topography |
Anus - Bladder - Bone - Brain - Breast - Cervix - Colon/rectum - Duodenum - Endometrium - Esophagus - Eye - Gallbladder - Head/Neck - Liver - Larynx - Lung - Mouth - Pancreas - Penis - Prostate - Kidney - Ovaries - Skin - Stomach - Testicles - Thyroid |
Morphology |
Papilloma/carcinoma - Choriocarcinoma - Adenoma/adenocarcinoma - Soft tissue sarcoma - Melanoma - Fibroma/fibrosarcoma - Metastasis - Lipoma/liposarcoma - Leiomyoma/leiomyosarcoma - Rhabdomyoma/rhabdomyosarcoma - Mesothelioma - Angioma/angiosarcoma - Osteoma/osteosarcoma - Chondroma/chondrosarcoma - Glioma - Lymphoma/leukemia |
Treatment |
Surgery - Chemotherapy - Radiation therapy - Immunotherapy - Experimental cancer treatment |
Related structures |
Cyst - Dysplasia - Hamartoma - Neoplasia - Nodule - Polyp - Pseudocyst |
Misc |
Tumor suppressor genes/oncogenes - Staging/grading - Carcinogenesis/metastasis - Carcinogen - Research - Paraneoplastic phenomenon - ICD-O - List of oncology-related terms |