Q.Define the term chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy refers to the use of chemical substances (drugs) as the mode of treatment for a disease. The drugs used are designed to act on molecular targets that are present in, or unique/more abundant in, the disease-causing cells or organisms (e.g., cancer cells, bacteria, or other pathogens) so as to:

• Kill or inhibit the growth of the harmful cells/organisms, and
• Cause minimum toxicity/damage to normal host cells, since the target chosen is ideally absent or less critical in healthy cells. …

Define chemotherapy as chemical/drug-based disease treatment. State that it works by acting on targets specific to the dis …

• Restricting the definition only to cancer treatment, ignoring its broader meaning (any disease treated with chemical drugs, including infections). …