What Is Chemotherapy?

Chemotherapy is the use of chemotherapeutic agents to destroy cancer cells. It is used to either cure, control or palliate.

It is the primary treatment for some cancers and an adjunct to the other forms of treatment ie surgery, radiation, and the biological response modifiers.

Categories of Chemotherapeutic Agents

There are two main categories of chemotherapeutic agent:

Details about the two categories are covered in the following pages, along with information about agents which do not fall into either category.