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Breast Cancer Chemotherapy |
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Written by Barbara Tiger
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Treating Breast Cancer with ChemotherapyChemotherapy is often a necessary method of treating your breast cancer. It is a disease that involves cells found within your body that are rapidly growing and dividing. In normal cells, this process also happens. That is the way that your body replenishes itself as well as repairs itself. Yet, with cancer cells, the rate of division is much faster and that means that cancer cells spread much faster than normal cells do. The differences in cancer cells and normal cells are many, but this may be a good thing for chemotherapy.
What Is Chemotherapy?Chemotherapy is a method of treating your cancer cells with very powerful drugs that kill them. Cancer chemotherapy is a necessary part of fighting off the disease. But, it is very targeted so that only the location where the cancer has been found, and surrounding areas are targeted. By doing this, doctors can concentrate the amount of medications used to stop the growth and spread of cancer. As cancer spreads it destroys the tissue it is found on, no matter if this is an organ or something else. This can cause you to die if it is not treated. The good news is that chemotherapy is an effective method of treatment in many patients. |
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Written by Barbara Tiger
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Treatment for Cancer and ChemotherapyCancer chemotherapy is a method of curing the disease of cancer. There are several different ways that doctors treat cancer, but chemotherapy is one of the most common of those methods. That is because in the wide range of different types of chemotherapy that is found in the body, it becomes necessary for doctors to find some type of method of stopping the cells from growing, dividing and therefore spreading. Chemotherapy treatments work to accomplish this goal very well.
Understanding what chemotherapy is happens to be very important for any patient that may be going through this process. What is chemotherapy? The words themselves actually mean "drug treatment" which sounds very vague. In truth, it is a method of treating cancer in which the medications and procedure will kill cells with a cytotoxic drug. These drugs may be a combination of other drugs, or they may just be one drug. There are many drugs that are used in this manner (currently 70 of them) that can be very helpful in fighting off cancer growth. Doctors will determine the best drug choice for you, based on a number of factors. |
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