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- First chemotherapy drug: Mustard gasACS: What Is Chemotherapy?
- Routes: Oral, topical, injection, IV, IA, IPNCI: Questions and Answers About Chemotherapy
- IV route distributes drugs quickly
- Doses differ for children and adults
- Usually given in interval cycles
- Lowers the number of white blood cellsACS: What Is Chemotherapy?
- Damages cancer cells
- Can also damage healthy cells causing side effects
- Several different types
- Places administered: Hospitals, doctors office, out patient clinic, home, workplace
- Combination chemotherapy: Multiple drugs administered
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Chemotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses cytotoxic drugs to kill cancer cells. Normal cells, grow and die in a controlled fashion. Cancer cells, on the other hand, keep forming without control. Chemotherapy stops cancer cells from multiplying.NCI: Questions and Answers About Chemotherapy
The drugs used during chemotherapy are called anti-cancer drugs. However, chemotherapy can also destroy healthy cells. Side effects result, when healthy cells are damaged. Upon completion of chemotherapy, damaged cells are able to repair themselves.ACS: How Does Chemotherapy Work?
Chemotherapy may be used to cure, control, or ease symptoms of cancer, depending on how advanced the disease is. While sometimes it is used on its own, often chemotherapy is administered in conjunction with surgery, radiation therapy or biological therapy.NCI: Questions and Answers About Chemotherapy
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Chemotherapy Questions
What are the new advances or soon to be released advances in Chemotherapy? 2 AnswersAccording to the American Cancer Society, there are several exciting new uses of chemotherapy and other agents hold even more promise for curing or controlling ... read more
What are the survival rates for cancer survivors that have undergone chemotherapy treatment? 2 AnswersYes the Chemotherapy treatment has improved. A new form of Chemotherapy called ADVENTRX was approved by the FDA in the year 2006 with these new drugs: vinorelb... read more
Need info about the use of chemotherapy for brain metastases. 4 AnswersNot an MD, not medical advice: I too am sorry to hear about your sister. I hope this research can help your family. Found on UpToDate (password protected medic... read more
Does chemotherapy work for dogs? 2 AnswersYes, but it depends on the type of cancer. Cancers of the white blood cells (lymphoma and leukaemia) are particularly sensitive to chemotherapy in most instance... read more
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Chemotherapy News
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Cancer industry abandons science to keep pushing mammograms that harm women
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Chemotherapy News
- Google News: Chemotherapy Search
- HealthDay: Common Chemotherapy Drug Linked to Memory Problems (April 22, 2008)
- HealthDay: Fasting Before Chemo Protects Healthy Cells (April 1, 2008)
- "The side effects of chemotherapy are one of the major obstacles in fighting the cancer, and this provides a calculated method to protect the great majority of non-cancerous cells," said study co-author Valter D. Longo, an associate professor of biological sciences at the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and the Norris Cancer Center at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
- HealthDay: Chemotherapy After Breast Cancer Surgery Effective for Older Women, Too (February 17, 2008)
- HealthDay: PET Scans ID Esophageal Cancers Benefiting From Chemo (June 8, 2007)
- HealthDay: Drug May Help Combat 'Chemo Brain' (June 3, 2007)
- Reuters: Gentler chemo helps patients survive lymphoma (December 10, 2007)
Chemotherapy Controversy
- MSNBC.com: Boy at center of chemo controversy dies (May. 22, 2007)
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