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Chemotherapy vs Adriamycin - What's the difference?

chemotherapy | adriamycin |

As nouns the difference between chemotherapy and adriamycin

is that chemotherapy is (medicine) any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state while adriamycin is an anthracycline antibiotic drug used in cancer chemotherapy.

chemotherapy

English

(wikipedia chemotherapy)

Noun

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

    • Derived terms

    * chemotherapeutic

    Anagrams

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    adriamycin

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • An anthracycline antibiotic drug used in cancer chemotherapy.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 10, author=Jane E. Brody, title=Oxygen Therapy Is Valuable, Sometimes, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Also, the therapy is clearly dangerous for some patients, including those with a collapsed lung and those receiving chemotherapy with cisplatinum or adriamycin . }}

    Synonyms

    * doxorubicin * hydroxydaunorubicin

    See also

    * (wikipedia "adriamycin")