Chemoradiotherapy (CRT, CRTx, CT-RT) is the combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy to treat cancer.
[1] Synonyms include radiochemotherapy (RCT, RCTx, RT-CT) and chemoradiation.
It is a type of multimodal cancer therapy.
[3] The chemotherapy component can be or include a radiosensitizing agent.
[2] Chemoradiotherapy as neoadjuvant therapy before surgery has been shown to be effective in esophageal cancer.