Chemotherapy: Open Access
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Palliative Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy (often abbreviated to chemo and generally CTX or CTx) may be a style of cancer treatment that uses one or a lot of anticancer medicine (chemotherapeutic agents) as a part of the same therapy program. therapy is also given with a curative intent (which nearly always involves mixtures of drugs), or it should aim to prolong life or to scale back symptoms (palliative chemotherapy). therapy is one in all the most important classes of the medical discipline specifically dedicated to pharmacotherapy for cancer, that is termed medical medicine. The term therapy has come back to connote non-specific usage of intracellular poisons to inhibit cell division, organic process. The connotation excludes a lot of selective agents that block extracellular signals (signal transduction). the event of therapies with specific molecular or genetic targets, that inhibit growth-promoting signals from classic endocrine hormones (primarily estrogens for carcinoma and androgens for prostate cancer) ar currently known as secretion therapies. in contrast, different inhibitions of growth-signals like those related to receptor amino acid kinases ar brought up as targeted medical aid.