Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses chemotherapeutic agents. Chemotherapy may be given with a curative intent. it may aim to prolong life or to reduce symptoms. the use of drugs (whether chemotherapy, hormonal therapy or targeted therapy) constitutes systemic therapy for cancer in that they are introduced into the blood stream and are therefore in principle able to address cancer at any anatomic location in the body.

Chemotherapy excludes more selective agents that block extracellular signals. The development of therapies with specific molecular or genetic targets, which inhibit growth-promoting signals from classic endocrine hormones are now called hormonal therapies. By contrast, other inhibitions of growth-signals like those associated with receptor tyrosine kinases are referred to as targeted therapy.

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