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chemotherapy

Any medical treatment with chemicals. It usually refers to treatment of cancer with cytotoxic and other drugs. The term was coined by the German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich for the use of synthetic chemicals against infectious diseases.



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In drug discovery, the array of cell lines has been used successfully in the study of the mechanism of genotoxicity of organometallic cytostatics (Aubrecht et al.
The company has developed expertise in a wide range of cancer therapies, including cytotoxics, cytostatics, monoclonal antibodies, cell-based therapies, vaccines, antiangiogenic agents, apoptosis inducers and hormonal therapies.
The cytostatic drug group consists of personnel exposed during cytostatic drug production and medical personnel who handled cytostatics.
 
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