No, Empliciti isn’t a chemotherapy drug. Chemotherapy describes traditional drugs used to treat cancer. It works by killing cells in your body that quickly multiply (make more cells). This includes cancer cells, but also some healthy cells. This is why many chemotherapy drugs cause hair loss, for example. Instead, Empliciti is a type of targeted therapy. It works by attaching itself to multiple myeloma cells to alert your immune system to these cells. As part of this signaling, it targets specific cells, called natural killer cells, and helps them destroy cancer cells. This means Empliciti doesn’t affect healthy cells as much as chemotherapy drugs do. Targeted therapies such as Empliciti may cause fewer side effects than chemotherapy drugs.