chemotherapy

From chemo- +‎ therapy.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkiːməʊˈθɛɹəpi/

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chemotherapy (countable and uncountable, plural chemotherapies)

1. (medicine) Any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state.
2. (oncology, most common usage) chemical treatment to kill or halt the replication and/or spread of cancerous cells in a patient.

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