Combination chemotherapy
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Broader Terms
chemotherapy, combination therapy
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Narrower Terms
HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy)
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Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)
- :-) Combination Chemotherapy is the use of a number of drugs together to combat the cancer.
- The rationale for combination chemotherapy is to use drugs that work on different parts of the cancer cell's life cycle, thereby increasing the likelihood that more cancer cells will be killed.
- Paclitaxel, cisplatin and methotrexate combination chemotherapy is active in the treatment of refractory urothelial malignancies.
- It is not yet known whether combination chemotherapy is more effective with or without trastuzumab in treating breast cancer.
- It is not yet known if combination chemotherapy is more effective with or without radiation therapy and/or surgery in treating Ewing's sarcoma.
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