化学療法: オープンアクセス

化学療法: オープンアクセス
オープンアクセス

ISSN: 2167-7700

概要

Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy is Given Prior Local Treatment Such as Surgery, and is Designed to Shrink the Primary Tumor.

Lichao Sun

Chemotherapy (often abbreviated to chemo and sometimes CTX or CTx) is a type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anticancer drugs (chemotherapeutic agents) as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen. Chemotherapy may be given with a curative intent (which almost always involves combinations of drugs), or it may aim to prolong life or to reduce symptoms (palliative chemotherapy). Chemotherapy is one of the major categories of the medical discipline specifically devoted to pharmacotherapy for cancer, which is called medical oncology 

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