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Chemotherapy vs Efaproxiral - What's the difference?

chemotherapy | efaproxiral |

As nouns the difference between chemotherapy and efaproxiral

is that chemotherapy is (medicine) any chemical treatment intended to be therapeutic with respect to a disease state while efaproxiral is an allosteric effector of haemoglobin that increases its oxygen-carrying capacity and can be used to increase the efficacy of certain chemotherapy drugs.

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

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    efaproxiral

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia efaproxiral)
  • An allosteric effector of haemoglobin that increases its oxygen-carrying capacity and can be used to increase the efficacy of certain chemotherapy drugs.