Chemotherapy is the use of drugs in the treatment of cancer. Standard chemotherapy treatments are administered in the form of pills or injected drugs and can be used alone or in combination with surgery and radiation.
In chemotherapy drugs are administered according to a written protocol that describes exactly how the medication is administered. However, once these drugs are spread throughout the body, both tumor cells and normal tissue cells are susceptible to their lethal consequences, often leading to a very sick patient.
As a rule, drug therapy is continued until the patient reaches a remission, ie the absence of all symptoms. Common side effects of chemotherapy are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding, weight loss, hair loss and general physical fatigue.
The main goal of chemotherapy is to destroy cancer cells and reduce the size of deadly tumors. Chemotherapy can be effective because it attacks the cells that split and produces new cells, interrupting the division process.
The problem with the above chemotherapy is that it can damage healthy cells. Hair follicles, for example, are some of the fastest growing cells in the body and can easily be damaged by chemotherapy. Therefore, many cancer patients during the treatment hair loss.
Chemotherapy can reduce the symptoms of this cancer by reducing the size of the tumors and reducing the spread of the cancer and, in some cases, prolonging your life expectancy. Of course, your chemotherapy treatment plan will vary depending on the type of cancer. Note that pleura and peritoneal meso. [*]
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