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Descriptions of Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy: Treatment with drugs that kill cancer cells.
Source: National Institute of Health

Chemotherapy : application of the beneficial effects of drugs to control or cure diseases or abnormal states in living organisms or tissues.
Source: CRISP

Basic Information: Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy: Class of drug/medication therapy (usually against cancer).

Count: Chemotherapy is listed as a: treatment for 85 conditions; alternative treatment for 0 conditions; preventive treatment for 0 conditions; research treatment for 3 conditions.

Treatments: list of all treatments

List of Diseases with Chemotherapy as a Treatment

The following list of conditions have 'Chemotherapy' or similar listed as a treatment in our database:

A

  • Actinic keratosis ... chemotherapy creams
  • Adenocarcinoma of the lung ... Chemotherapy

    B

  • Back tumour ... Chemotherapy
  • Biphasic Mesothelioma ... Chemotherapy
  • Bladder Cancer ... intravenous chemotherapy, chemotherapy, intravesical chemotherapy
  • Blood cancer ... chemotherapy
  • Brain cancer ... injected chemotherapy, oral chemotherapy, Intrathecal chemotherapy, chemotherapy
  • Breast Cancer ... chemotherapy
  • Breast Duct Papilloma ... Chemotherapy
  • Bronchogenic carcinoma ... Chemotherapy

    C

  • Cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Carcinomatous meningitis ... intrathecal chemotherapy
  • Cervical Cancer ... chemotherapy
  • Choriocarcinoma ... chemotherapy
  • Colorectal cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Cushing's syndrome ... chemotherapy

    D

  • Distal colorectal cancer ... Chemotherapy

    E

  • Eczema ... Photochemotherapy (light and psoralen)
  • Epithelioid Mesothelioma ... Chemotherapy
  • Esophagus Cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Ewing's sarcoma ... chemotherapy

    F

  • Familial Colorectal Cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Fibrosarcoma ... chemotherapy

    G

  • Gastric cancer, borrmann 4 ... chemotherapy

    H

  • Hamartomatous colorectal cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Hereditary colorectal cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Hip cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Hodgkin's Disease ... chemotherapy

    K

  • Kaposi's Sarcoma ... chemotherapy
  • Kidney Cancer ... chemotherapy

    L

  • Larynx Cancer ... chemotherapy
  • Leukemia ... intravenous chemotherapy, oral chemotherapy, intrathecal chemotherapy, chemotherapy
  • Leukemia, Monocytic, Acute ... chemotherapy
  • Leukemia, Myeloid ... Chemotherapy
  • Lip cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Liver cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Lung cancer ... Chemotherapy

    M

  • Malignant Lung Cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Malignant mesothelioma ... Chemotherapy
  • Melanoma ... chemotherapy
  • Mesothelioma ... chemotherapy, Intraperitoneal chemotherapy
  • Metastatic adrenal cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Metastatic blood cancer ... chemotherapy
  • Metastatic breast cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Metastatic liver cancer ... chemotherapy
  • Metastatic lymph cancer ... chemotherapy
  • Metastatic soft tissue cancer ... chemotherapy
  • MSI-H colorectal cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • MSI-L colorectal cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • MSS colorectal cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Multiple Myeloma ... chemotherapy
  • Mycosis fungoides ... chemotherapy

    N

  • Neuroblastoma ... chemotherapy
  • Neurofibromatosis ... chemotherapy
  • Neurofibromatosis-1 ... chemotherapy
  • Neurofibromatosis-2 ... chemotherapy
  • Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma ... chemotherapy
  • Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer ... Chemotherapy

    O

  • Oral cancer ... chemotherapy
  • Osteosarcoma ... chemotherapy
  • Ovarian Cancer ... IV chemotherapy, chemotherapy, intraperitoneal chemotherapy

    P

  • Pancreatic cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Pericardial Mesothelioma ... Chemotherapy
  • Pleural cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Polycythemia ... chemotherapy
  • Primary prostate cancer ... chemotherapy
  • Proximal colorectal cancer ... Chemotherapy

    R

  • Respiratory system cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma ... chemotherapy
  • Rib Tumor ... Chemotherapy

    S

  • Salivary gland cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Sarcomatoid Mesothelioma ... Chemotherapy
  • Small Cell Lung Cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Spinal Cord Tumor ... chemotherapy
  • Spleen Cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Sporadic colorectal cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Squamous Cell Skin Cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Stomach cancer ... IV chemotherapy, chemotherapy, intraperitoneal chemotherapy

    T

  • Testicular Cancer ... chemotherapy
  • Thyroid cancer ... chemotherapy
  • Tongue Cancer ... Chemotherapy
  • Tuberculosis ... short-course chemotherapy

    V

  • Vitiligo ... Oral psoralen photochemotherapy, Topical psoralen photochemotherapy

    W

  • Wilms' tumor ... chemotherapy

    List of Diseases with Chemotherapy as a Research Treatment

    The following list of conditions have 'Chemotherapy' or similar listed as a research treatment or other research area in our database:

    B

  • Brain cancer ... high-dose chemotherapy

    M

  • Multiple Myeloma ... high-dose chemotherapy

    P

  • Prostate Cancer ... chemotherapy

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