Synonyms for chemotherapy
ˌki moʊˈθɛr ə pi, ˌkɛm oʊ-chemo·ther·apy

Princeton's WordNet

1. chemotherapynoun

   the use of chemical agents to treat or control disease (or mental illness)

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1. List of paraphrases for "chemotherapy":

   chemotherapeutic, chemo

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1. chemotherapy

   Synonyms:
   Cancer killing, chemotherapeutics

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1. Annick Desjardins:

   We are presently enrolling in a phase two trial combining the genetically modified poliovirus with one dose of chemotherapy, we are also enrolling on a trial for pediatric brain tumor patients.

2. Anthony Fauci:

   You need to protect yourself because you are not completely exempt from serious illness, and you can become the vector, or the carrier of infection, where you get infected, you feel well and then you inadvertently and innocently pass it on to your grandfather, your grandmother or an uncle who is on chemotherapy for cancer.

3. Mark Hoppus:

   Throughout the day as I'm getting chemotherapy and more bags of chemicals are being dripped into my body, other people are reaching out, and they're like, ‘Dude, what's going on?’.

4. Samuel Goldlust:

   It uses alternating electric fields with rays that are placed directly on the scalp which works to kill tumor cells in a different way than surgery obviously, and in a different way than chemotherapy or radiation.

5. Sharon Lum:

   The patients who had surgery were the ones who had better responses to chemotherapy, probably had less metastatic disease and were probably healthier, so maybe they lived longer because of surgery, or maybe they would have lived longer anyway, and the study shows that doctors know how to identify patients who will do well.