> people eventually started calling these precision therapeutics "chemotherapy" as well I think it is, despite the fact that the word seems to indicate broader

> people eventually started calling these precision therapeutics "chemotherapy" as well I think it is, despite the fact that the word seems to indicate broader use. The original medication was called cytostatics, which stops cell growth or division. Wikipedia says it like this: The term chemotherapy has come to connote non-specific usage of intracellular poisons to inhibit mitosis (cell division) or induce DNA damage...] The connotation of the word chemotherapy excludes more selective agents... The development of therapies with specific molecular or genetic targets, which inhibit growth-promoting signals ..., are now called hormonal therapies. By contrast, other inhibitions of growth-signals like those associated with receptor tyrosine kinases are referred to as targeted therapy.