You Should Know About Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is rarely heard by people or patients if they are healthy. They will ask and search the information about
chemotherapy if they suffered a cancer. This therapy will be chose by them as the last effort after the painless medications failed to cure their cancer. Chemotherapy is mentioned just “Chemo”.
Please be noted that chemotherapy is the type of cancer treatment to kill the cancer cells and to stop cancer cells from spreading to other parts of your body. The main purpose is to localize the destroyed effects of the cancer. Cancer cell is also known as malignant cells.
To destroy all cancer cells and to find the best treatment, chemotherapy will be combined with another therapy like:
- X-Ray Radiation therapy or Radiotherapy
- Cancer surgery.
Many people will ask what the procedure of chemotherapy:
- Different type of cancer will be treated in different ways with different dosage also.
- The treatment can be taken as a pill orally or liquids that injected via intravenous (IV) or intramuscular injections
Side Effects of Chemotherapy:
- There are side effects of chemotherapy such as hair loss, nausea, vomiting, constant fatigue and so on.
- The other like fever, anemia and low red and white blood counts.
Many patients are afraid with chemotherapy because of theses side effects. Some of them make the patient conditions getting worse, that’s why, check regularly to your Doctor after receiving chemotherapy process. Some of the side effects of chemotherapy can be temporary or make the patient uncomfortable.
The kind of cancers that’s treated by chemotherapy such as lung cancer, leukemia, uterine cancer and so on. The medical experts have tried to control chemotherapy effects to produce the best result of treatment.
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