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Chemotherapy is the use of medicines (or drugs) to treat disease. Sometimes this treatment is called just “chemo.” Although surgery and radiation therapy remove, destroy, or damage cancer cells in a specific area, chemotherapy works throughout the whole body. Chemotherapy can destroy cancer cells that have metastasized (spread) to parts of the body far away from the primary (original) tumor.
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rnnMore than 100 chemotherapy drugs are used in various combinations. Although a single chemotherapy drug can be used to treat cancer, generally they work better when used in certain combinations. Your chemotherapy treatment will likely include more than one drug. This is called combination chemotherapy. A combination of drugs with different actions can work together to kill more cancer cells and reduce the chance that the cancer may become resistant to a particular chemotherapy drug.
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rnnYou and your doctor will decide what drug or combination of drugs you’ll get. Your physician usually chooses the doses, how the drugs will be given, and how often, and how long a treatment is best for you. All of these decisions will depend on the type and location of the cancer, its size, and how it is affecting your normal body functions and overall health.
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rnnAlso chemo usually makes your hair fall out. My mother had to have it and she said it messes you up and she would never take it again. It made her really cranky and injured all the time.
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To put it simply:
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rnnCancer is caused by the out of control multiplication of cells.
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rnnChemotherapy is the combination of drugs given to cancer patients in order to disturb the multiplication of cancer cells.
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rnnChemo can be administered in a pill, intravenously, by injection or even applied to the skin.
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rnnThe drugs are made to destroy the cells that are multiplying even healthy ones. Side effects vary depending on the person. I've had several friends go through chemo while both lost their hair, due to the attack on the cells of the hair, one had to be hospitalize because of the side effects while the other had nearly none at all.
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Chemotherapy is generally drugs to teat various diseases including cancer. There are hundreds of different kinds . . some more toxic than others . . some given alone or some given in combinations to make the treatment more effective. Chemo can be given intravenously, through a central line or taken orally by mouth. Chemo can also be used during radiation to make it more effective . . and it can be used during surgery . . heated and the tumor bed perfused. My son had high dose chemo in the hospital . . and did lose his hair. He also underwent the surgery with the heated chemo put directly into the abdominal cavity. He also had nine months of chemo at home and the drugs thinned the hair but he never lost it all. The last type of chem he took was taken orally at home on a daily basis . . he kept his hair, but it turned his hair white.
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a cancer treatment. it is chemical treatment that retards the division of cancerous rapidly dividing cells. hair falls out during chemotherapy because it is a rapidly dividing type of cell, so it will be killed with the treatment.
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Chemotherapy refers to treatment of disease by chemicals that kill cells, specifically those of micro-organisms or cancer. ♥