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- n. medicine A combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy used to treat some cancers
Etymologies
- chemo- + radiotherapy (Wiktionary)
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“Complex statistical analysis was used to eliminate variable factors in comparing radiotherapy with 'chemoradiotherapy'.”
“A research team from China performed a randomized controlled study to evaluate the outcome of preoperative and postoperative chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in patients with local advanced thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC).”
“Long-term efficacy of perioperative chemoradiotherapy on esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.”
“Combined neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) or adjuvant CRT with surgery may improve survival but there is concern about treatment morbidity and the best sequencing of CRT and surgery.”
“During the past two decades, chemoradiotherapy-combining chemotherapy and radiation treatments-has become important in helping preserve organs while treating advanced head and neck cancers, according to background information in the article.”
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“Neoptolemos JP, Dunn JA, Stocken DD, Almond J, Link K, et al. (2001) Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy and chemotherapy in resectable pancreatic cancer: a randomised controlled trial.”
“Severe oral mucositis (World Health Organization, WHO scale, grades 3 to 4) is a painful, debilitating, and costly toxicity caused by chemoradiotherapy regimens used to treat head and neck cancer.”
“Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for esophageal cancer: Impact on extracapsular lymph node involvement.”
“There is increasing evidence to include combined neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) as an alternative to surgical resection alone, to improve survival for locoregional esophageal cancer.”
“Little is known about the effects of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) on the presence of extracapsular LNI and its prognostic value in patients with resected esophageal cancer.”
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