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Is chemotherapy used in the treatment of other diagnoses other than cancer? maybe for lupus?
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Yes on rare occasion: Chemotherapy can be used to suppress the immune response like in autoimmune processes and diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and wegners granulomatosis.
Answered 12/5/2013
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