• (therapy) Broad term with many narrower terms that can apply more specifically to most projects; it should be used ONLY when specific narrower therapy terms do not apply, e.g., if a project is dealing with drugs in therapy, do not index drugs and therapy, index instead the particular drugs plus chemotherapy or the specific type of chemotherapy.
  CRISP Thesaurus
  National Institutes of Health, 2006
• (therapy) Observations generated by non-interventional treatment protocols (e.g. occupational, physical, radiation, nutritional and medication therapy)
  NCI Health Level 7 Vocabulary
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2018
• (treatment) Medical care given to a patient to mitigate or cure an illness, injury, or reduced health status. NOTE: May include prescribed drugs, biologics, surgery, devices, and physical or psychotherapies, but not diagnostics or prophylaxis. See also intervention, diagnosis.
  CDISC Terminology
  Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), 2021
• (therapeutics) Procedures concerned with the remedial treatment or prevention of diseases.
  NLM Medical Subject Headings
  U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
• Medical care intended to treat or cure a condition or lessen its symptoms. This includes the administration of drugs, surgical procedures, physical or psychotherapy, or the use of therapeutic devices.
  NCI
  U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
• Therapeutics, treatment and care of a patient for the purpose of both preventing and combating disease or alleviating pain or injury. The term comes from the Greek therapeutikos, which means "inclined to serve." In a broad sense, therapeutics means serving and caring for the patient in a...
  Encyclopedia Britannica
  Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2025