Chemotherapy

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Chemoterapy is the name used for treatment of diseases with the use of chemicals. When people talk about it nowadays, they mostly refer to a special treatment of cancer.

When people talk about it outside the treatment of cancer, they may also refer to antibiotics. Perhaps the best known antibiotic is penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming.

Chemoterapy 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 transpalnted organs.

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

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