Chemotherapy Information and Side Effects entities Cancer Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. In its modern-day use, it refers primarily to cytotoxic drugs used to treat cancer. In its non-oncological use, the term may also refer to antibiotics (antibacterial chemotherapy). In that sense, the first modern chemotherapeutic agent was Paul Ehrlich's arsphenamine, an arsenic compound discovered in 1909 and used to treat syphilis. This was later followed by sulfonamides discovered by Domagk and penicillin G discovered by Ale ...
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Chemotherapy Organizations
- National Women's Health Information Center http://www.4woman.gov/
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Cancer Institute http://www.nci.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Nemours Foundation http://www.Nemours.org
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/
- American Society of Clinical Oncology http://www.asco.org/
- American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America
- National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine http://nccam.nih.gov/
- American Foundation for Urologic Disease
- National Oral Health Information Clearinghouse
- Cancer Information Service, NCI, NIH, HHS http://cis.nci.nih.gov/
- The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/hm_lls
- American Hair Loss Council http://www.ahlc.org/
- Office of Medical Applications of Research http://odp.od.nih.gov/omar/
- National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research http://www.nidr.nih.gov/
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org