Intensive chemotherapy

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-004357",
  "term": "Intensive chemotherapy",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "Treatment that uses anticancer drugs given at high doses or over several months to try to cure cancer or cause a remission. Intensive chemotherapy is used to treat certain types of cancer, including leukemia and lymphoma, and may be given with other therapy before a bone marrow or stem cell transplant. It can lower the number of normal blood-forming cells in the bone marrow and can cause other severe side effects, so it is usually given in a hospital.",
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/intensive-chemotherapy/"
}