Chemotherapy treatment means treating cancer with a chemical much like we treat an infection with Penicillin. Almost everyone has heard horrible stories about the side effects of chemo, and the reality is that it is not a pleasant experience. But, people can survive and have a normal life after cancer - whether they went chemo or not. Chemotherapy is the usual mode of treatment after surgery. Being a systemic treatment, it attacks young and small clusters of cancer cells anywhere in the body. Chemotherapy treatment uses medicines, hormones, or biological agents to fight cancer. Chemotherapy treatments are given in different ways: it can be given orally, by injection into a muscle, by injection into a vein, or by injection into a catheter (a device which is attached to a major blood vessel).
Chemotherapy Treatments are often given in cycles; a treatment for a period of time, followed by a recovery period, then another treatment. Chemotherapy may be given in a variety of settings including your home, a hospital outpatient facility, a physician's office or clinic. Chemo conjures up thoughts of treatments that cause horrible side affects like the so called Chemotherapy Nausea. It often leaves the patient feeling worse than if they had no treatments at all. Advances in the chemotherapy treatment administration and the medicines used itself reduces the ill effects of common chemo. Some of the unpleasant side effects of chemo have been reduced.
Chemotherapy involves the use of several drugs or a single drug that is either injected into a vein, into a body cavity, or taken in as a pill. Chemotherapy can target cancer cells that have spread to the other parts of the body unlike surgery or radiation therapy. Cancerous cells are rogue cells. they morph from normal cells and then multiply in a random, out-of-control fashion. Chemotherapy is meant to destroy those cells that have been left behind by surgery.
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