From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Illness & disability, Drugs, medicines, Hospitalchemotherapyche·mo‧ther‧a‧py /ˌkiːməʊˈθerəpi, ˌke- $ -moʊ-/ noun [uncountable]MIthe use of drugs to control and try to curecancer → radiotherapyExamples from the Corpuschemotherapy• We sat with my parents and discussedchemotherapy.• The sick man we see at his lowest during chemotherapy is not particularly brave, but he is very human.• Browning said he had few side effects during the treatment and began eating steaks after the second week of chemotherapy.• The agony of a year of chemotherapy at Stanford MedicalCenter she expected.• Previously chemotherapy was most commonly used to treat men suffering from testicular cancer.• No relevantchemotherapy was available at this time-the early I970s.• Yet despite remedialchemotherapy and amputation the syndrome continued.Originchemotherapy(1900-2000)chemo-"chemical" (from Modern Latin, from Late Greekchemeia"alchemy", probably from chyma"liquid", from chein"to pour") + therapy