Myelosuppressive therapy
| Myelosuppressive therapy | |
|---|---|
| Term | Myelosuppressive therapy |
| Short definition | myelosuppressive therapy - (pronounced) (MY-eh-loh-suh-PREH-siv THAYR-uh-pee) Treatment that stops or slows down the growth of blood-forming cells in the bone marrow. Myelosuppressive therapies, such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy, kill normal cells and cancer cells in the bone marrow. |
| Type | Cancer terms |
| Specialty | Oncology |
| Language | English |
| Source | NCI |
| Comments | |
myelosuppressive therapy - (pronounced) (MY-eh-loh-suh-PREH-siv THAYR-uh-pee) Treatment that stops or slows down the growth of blood-forming cells in the bone marrow. Myelosuppressive therapies, such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy, kill normal cells and cancer cells in the bone marrow. This decreases the number of normal red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets in the blood and bone marrow. Myelosuppressive therapy may be given before bone marrow or stem cell transplantation. It can also be used to treat some blood disorders such as polycythemia vera (a disease where there are too many red blood cells in the bone marrow and blood)
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