chemotherapyn.

1906 Lancet 6 Oct. 945/1 Professor Paul Ehrlich..opened the proceedings by an address on the Aims of Chemotherapy.

1943 Endeavour 2 41/1 A definition of the scope of true chemotherapy is hard to frame... We may assume, however, that the term implies the cure of infections caused by micro-organisms with the aid of substances of known or partly known constitution.

1957 Listener 14 Nov. 780/1 The past ten years have seen a great deal of progress in the field of cancer chemotherapy.

1970 Jrnl. Psychiatric Res. 8 1 The elucidation and specification of such factors might lead to an understanding of the presumptive biochemical etiology of the disease [sc. schizophrenia], and, conceivably, to rational chemotherapy, and even chemoprevention, of the basic disease process.

1993 B. Moyers Healing & Mind iv. 306 I wonder about whether herbs could help reduce side effects for patients getting chemotherapy for cancer?

2001 S. Heaney Electric Light 9 Bits of the grass I pulled I posted off To one going in to chemotherapy And one who had come through.

2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 29 July i. 18/5 Screening has no advocate like a patient who has been through it all—surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, or slash, burn and poison, as some people call it.