It is a modality to treat rapidly dividing cancer cells using medicines. These medicines are delivered via different modes, such as intravenous, intra-arterial, oral or topical. It can be used as the sole treatment mobility or in collaboration with other modalities such as surgery or radiotherapy.
Chemotherapy (also known as Chemo) is a kind of cancer treatment that uses medicine to kill malignant or cancer cells. The mechanism behind Chemotherapy is the chemotherapeutic agents that retard or stop the growth of cancer cells that are growing and dividing very quickly.
But alongside, it can also damage healthy cells that divide quickly, such as cells that form the epithelium of intestines or oral cavity (mouth), resulting in side-effects. The cells often heal when the course of therapy is over. Depending on case specificity, doctor will choose whether to use chemotherapy as the only treatment (which happens rarely) or the patient would have to go for combination therapy[ chemotherapy with surgery, radiation therapy( energy radiations are used to slow down or kill malignant cells ) or immunotherapy (It is a therapy that is designed to enhance or suppress immunity depending upon type of disease patient is suffering from.)]
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Chemotherapy can:
Treatment schedules will vary in duration and cycles of the therapy depend on the following factors
Patient will in most case receives chemotherapy in cycles.
A cycle is the total days of therapy treatment followed by days of rest. The total of rest plus treatment days is one cycle
For example, if a patient receives one week of chemotherapy followed by four weeks of rest. In this case, these five weeks are one cycle.
The rest amount gives a healing period to busy to make new healthy cells provides your body an opportunity to make new healthy cells
Chemotherapy may be given in many ways
Q. What are the side effects and risks associated with chemotherapy?
Below is a list of side effects that chemotherapy may cause. Not everyone gets every side-effect. Side-effects depend on the type and dose of your chemotherapy and depending on your general health.
You may have a lot of side effects, some, or none at all.
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Q. How will the patient feel during chemotherapy?
How a patient feel depends on what is a patient’s systemic health and what type of cancer patient is suffering from, is it metastatic, at what stage is it.
Q. Can I start working during chemotherapy?
Yes, indeed Many patients work during chemotherapy. Whether or not the patient can or will work it totally depends on what kind of work you do and the patient’s own systemic health. If it’s a light job and the patient doesn’t get fatigued, he or she can keep on the working job allows, you may want to see if you can work.
Q. How as a patient we will know if chemotherapy is working?
A doctor will advise you for physical exams and lab -tests (such as blood tests and x-rays) to see if they are getting desired effects.
Q. Will the patient get side effects from chemotherapy?
Yes, the patient may have a lot of side effects, some, or none at all. This again depends hugely on lots of factors such as the type and amount of chemotherapy the patient is getting and how the host’s body reacts.
Q. Till how long do side effects last?
It can take months or even years for them to go away depending upon the severity of the case and type of chemotherapeutic agent you have been prescribed.
Sometimes, chemotherapy causes long-term irreversible damage which may include damage to your heart, lungs, nerves, kidneys, or reproductive organs.
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