Chemotherapy

The term chemotherapy describes treatment with a type of drug that acts by stopping the growth of cancer cells and preventing their spread to other parts of the body. Chemotherapy is often given in the form of a continuous injection into a vein for between 10 and 15 minutes. The treatment usually lasts for four to six months. Because it goes straight into the bloodstream, that needs to always looked at. All chemotherapy drugs cause tiredness (fatigue) …showed first 75 words of 639 total…

…showed last 75 words of 639 total…a hard and very stressful process. Chemotherapy helps kill cancer cell that will hopefully cure cancer patients. I learned why the use of chemotherapy is used and the reasons are to cure cancer, reduce the chance of cancer cells coming back and if its not possible to be cured to eliminate cancer cells. It is a good way to destroy cancer cells. Most of the times it works, and in some cases it dose not.