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Overview

Chemotherapy treatments

Chemotherapy is a medical term used for drugs that are used to treat cancerous diseases, but often a part of cancer treatment. Other cancer treatments such as surgery and radiation therapy remove or destroy a cancer cells in a specific area, but chemotherapy works throughout a patient’s body.
Hundreds of drugs can be used in treating [...]

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Types of chemotherapy

Different types of chemotherapy treatments include the use of various chemo drugs to treat different stages of cancerous growth. Depending on the drugs’ target base, duration and way of administration most types of chemotherapy are used to shrink or slow growth of tumours, which can then be removed by surgery after the treatment.
Chemotherapy treatment is [...]

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How does chemotherapy work?

Chemotherapy is one of the most effective measures in treating cancer patients. Sometimes it alone can be used to cure some types of cancer. Chemotherapy works well when it’s used in combination of several chemotherapy drugs. During chemotherapy the medicine is swallowed or injected through the veins of patient.
Under chemotherapy the drugs not only target [...]

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What is Chemotherapy

History of Chemotherapy
History of Chemotherapy goes back as far as World War 1 and 2 when Mustard gas had been used as a warfare poison gas for military uses. The first and the foremost drug used to cure was accidentally discovered when during World War 2 a group of people were accidentally exposed to mustard [...]

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