How Chemotherapy Works against Cancer


Normally, cells live, grow and die predictably. Cancer occurs when certain cells of the body continue to divide and form more cells without the ability to stop this process. Chemotherapy protocols lead to the destruction of cancer cells by preventing the cells from multiplying. Unfortunately, during the treatment process with chemotherapy protocols, healthy cells can also be affected, especially those that by their nature should be divided rapidly.

Chemotherapy is used to:
a. Treat cancer
Chemotherapy can be used to cure cancer, lessen the chance it will return, or stop or slow its growth.
b. Ease cancer symptoms
Chemotherapy can be used to shrink tumors that are causing pain and other problems

Who Receives Chemotherapy
Your treatment plan will depend on the type of cancer, the drugs used in chemotherapy, the goals of treatment and the response of your body. Chemotherapy can be used on its own or with other treatments. You can receive treatment every day, every week or every month. There may be some pauses between treatments so that your body has the opportunity to produce new healthy cells. You can take medicines orally, injections, cream or intravenously.

How Chemotherapy Is Used with Other Cancer Treatments
There are several ways to use chemotherapy:
1. As a treatment in advanced or metastatic disease, where there is no local treatment alternative.
2. As a complementary therapy (adjuvant) to local treatments (surgery or radiotherapy).
3. As an induction or neoadjuvant treatment in patients with localized tumors. It is used as a treatment prior to surgery and radiotherapy, with the intention of decreasing the likelihood of distant metastasis, using more conservative techniques in surgery, by decreasing the tumor size, and promoting knowledge of the sensitivity of the tumor to the drugs used.


4. As a direct instillation in specific regions: in the cerebrospinal fluid, in the pleural, pericardial and peritoneal cavities.
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