Is cancer chemotherapy a type of nuclear medicine?

No.: Nuclear medicine is the use of radio-isotopes to detect and cure cancer. Chemotherapy involves drugs, like tamoxifen for breast cancer.

No,however...: ...Nuclear med can be a form of chemorx (see below). Chemotherapy involves killing cancer cells throughout the body. This can be done with drugs that indiscriminately kill rapidly dividing cells or "directed" drugs that attack only cancer cells that have unique features.Nuclear medicine uses radioisotopes to diagnose and treat illness; ie, radioactive iodine can be used to rx certain thyroid cas.

Chemotherapy nuclear: Chemotherapy is a chemical, usually a toxic chemical that one would consider poison if used in a particular way. It is in no way nuclear or radioactive. That would be radiation.

No: Typically chemotherapy does not refer to radioactive material used in nuclear medicine.

In a way: It isn't chemotherapy, but sometimes radioactive seeds or implants are placed near a tumor to help kill it. This is done by radiation oncologists usually. Also, there are some nuclear medicine procedures done by nuclear medicine physicians that help treat certain cancers such as thyroid cancer (radioiodine) and lymphoma (e.g. 90y-ibritumomab tiuxetan). Here's one resource: http://goo.Gl/dsgft.

Depends: Some specific examples. I131 therapy is often used for thyroid cancer. Prastascint (Indium (111In) capromab pendetide) is another therapy for prostate bone cancer.