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Antineoplastic Drugs


One type of chemotherapy is antineoplastic drug therapy. This is the use of medications that either kill the cancer cells or interfere with the growth of the cancer cells. These are the types of medicines people most often think of when we say cancer chemotherapy. Your doctors, nurses and pharmacists will discuss what specific antineoplastic drugs you will be getting.


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