maintenance chemotherapy

Preferred Label : maintenance chemotherapy;

MeSH definition : Treatment designed to help prevent a relapse of a disease following the successful primary treatments (INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY and CONSOLIDATION CHEMOTHERAPY) with a long-term low-dose drug therapy.;

MeSH synonym : chemotherapies, maintenance; chemotherapy, maintenance; maintenance chemotherapies;

Details

Origin ID

D060046;

UMLS CUI

C0481504;

Allowable qualifiers
- adverse effects [MeSH Qualifier]
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- contraindications [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- mortality [MeSH Qualifier]
- nursing [MeSH Qualifier]
- psychology [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
- veterinary [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Encounter for antineoplastic chemotherapy and immunotherapy [ICD-9 code]
- Other chemotherapy [ICD-10 Sub-category (who)]
Record concept(s)
- maintenance chemotherapy [MeSH concept]
See also
- administration, metronomic [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Finding [UMLS semantic type]

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