Plural of chemotherapy; multiple instances or types of chemical treatments for disease, especially cancer.
From chemotherapy (chemo- 'chemical' + therapy 'treatment') + -ies plural suffix. The plural reflects that patients often receive different drug combinations.
Different cancers require different chemotherapies—a breast cancer patient's drug cocktail might be completely different from a leukemia patient's, showing how personalized modern medicine has become.
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