Administration of melatonin during chemotherapy may prevent some chemotherapy-induced side effects, particularly myelosuppression and neuropathy. Oncologists often prescribe drugs (Leukine) that work in a similar way as melatonin to protect the immune system.
Definition: Mortality is incidence of death in a population. It is measured in various ways, often by the probability that a randomly selected individual in a population at some date and location would die in some period of time. Contrast to morbidity. Terms related to Mortality: 1  Morbidity. 2  Reinsurance.  Indemnity.
Death(verb) the cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants. Death(verb) total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory. Death(verb) manner of dying; act or state of passing from life. Death(verb) cause of loss of life.