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chemoradiotherapy

noun

chemoradiotherapy is a noun meaning “A combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy used to treat some cancers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-M-O-R-A-D-I-O-T-H-E-R-A-P-Y, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chemoradiotherapy is chemoradiotherapies.

What does chemoradiotherapy mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy used to treat some cancers

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of chemoradiotherapy

  • chemoradiotherapies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is chemoradiotherapy?

Chemoradiotherapy appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does chemoradiotherapy come from?

From chemo- + radiotherapy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).