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Chemoradiotherapy

multimodal treatment

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ5090613 ↗
Source-derived summary

Chemoradiotherapy (CRT, CRTx, CT-RT) is the combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy to treat cancer. Synonyms include radiochemotherapy (RCT, RCTx, RT-CT) and chemoradiation. It is a type of multimodal cancer therapy.

Chemoradiation can be concurrent (together) or sequential (one after the other).

The chemotherapy component can be or include a radiosensitizing agent.

Chemoradiotherapy as neoadjuvant therapy before surgery has been shown to be effective in esophageal cancer.

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Further reading

Eifel, Patricia J. (2006). "Chemoradiotherapy in the treatment of cervical cancer". Seminars in Radiation Oncology. 16 (3): 177–185.

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“Chemoradiotherapy” enters the record as multimodal treatment. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Chemoradiotherapy, multimodal and treatment can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Chemoradiotherapy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.