Chemotherapy

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Glossary Item
METEOR identifier:	436811
Registration status:	Health, Standard 07/12/2011
Definition:	The treatment of disease by means of chemical substances or drugs, usually used in reference to neoplastic disease. Chemotherapy for the treatment of cancer achieves its antitumour effect through the use of antineoplastic drugs that inhibit the reproduction of cancer cells by interfering with DNA synthesis and mitosis.

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Cancer Australia
Reference documents:	Stedman TL 2006. Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28th Edition. Maryland: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins page 358. American College of Surgeons 2002. Facility Oncology Registry Data Standards (FORDS), 2011 revision. Commission on Cancer page 26.
Relational attributes
Metadata items which use this glossary item:	Cancer treatment type code N[N] Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—chemotherapy completion date Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—chemotherapy completion date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—chemotherapy completion date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—chemotherapy cycles administered Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—chemotherapy cycles administered Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—chemotherapy cycles administered, number of cycles N[NN] Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—chemotherapy cycles administered, number of cycles N[NN] Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—chemotherapy start date Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—chemotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—chemotherapy start date, DDMMYYYY Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—primary course of chemotherapy delay indicator Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—primary course of chemotherapy delay indicator, yes/no/unknown code N Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—primary course of chemotherapy delay reason Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—primary course of chemotherapy delay reason, code N Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—systemic therapy agent or protocol, eviQ protocol identifier NNNNNN Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—systemic therapy agent or protocol, eviQ protocol identifier NNNNNN Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—systemic therapy agent or protocol, text X[X(149)] Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Cancer treatment—systemic therapy agent or protocol, text X[X(149)] Health, Superseded 08/05/2014 Chemotherapy delay reason code N Health, Standard 08/05/2014 Lung cancer (clinical) DSS Health, Superseded 14/05/2015 Lung cancer (clinical) NBPDS Health, Standard 14/05/2015 Primary course of chemotherapy delay indicator Health, Standard 08/05/2014