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 gas and when examined later were found to have low count of white blood cells.
Therefore sometime in 1940’s several patients suffering from cancer that affected their white blood cells were treated with injecting the mustard gas through veins as it was very irritating to inhale it. So, chemotherapy during early 90’s was done using mustard gas as their main drug. It showed remarkable improvement in the patients and there on the researchers led to develop and find out new drugs that can be utilized in the chemotherapy sessions for the treatment of cancer .
Chemotherapy treatment
Chemotherapy also helps to kill cancer cells which spread in any part of the body apart from the original cancer. So, the wide acceptance and use of chemotherapy is basically based on its advantage to cure the cancer completely rather than just specifying one part. Chemotherapy targets cell division and the cancer growing at a fast pace are much more responsive to chemotherapy because larger sections of targeted cells are undergoing division process.
Chemotherapy is more effective in curing younger tumors and cancer which are detected at an early stage. When used on earlier detected tumors the number of cancerous can be reduced remarkably. Generally chemotherapy also employs using more than one drug and drugs used in combination proven to work better. Use of several drugs to cure chemotherapy is known as combination chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy may or may not be an expensive affair depending upon on how you get to settle your bills. Cost of chemotherapy is reflected by the kind and depth of cancer a person has and factors like amount of medication, place where it’s administered and type of pills that the patient is prescribed.