Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is the use of certain chemical substances to treat disease . It is Behandlungsverfahrenin itself as well as surgery. The first known use of chemotherapy in the use of Qena H. Indians in Peru , in the treatment of fevers such as malaria .

Discovered the father of modern chemotherapy Paul Ehrlich in his lab in 1908 arsphenamine Sahachiro Hatta , a compound of arsenic used to treat syphilis and trypanosomiasis . Later , came the development of sulfamidochrysoïdine Domagk , which allows pave the way for sulfamidothérapie1 laboratory Ernest Fourneau, and the discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming G in 1929 .

In common parlance , the term is used today , " chemotherapy " in the first instance to refer to the anti-cancer therapies . The rest of this article does not only deal with this particular issue . Referred to as antibiotic anti-bacterial , and chemotherapy , but in medical practice is a term usually used in connection with the treatment of tuberculosis .