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The use of chemotherapeutic drugs for cancer treatment is Cancer chemotherapy.

These drugs work by killing or impeding the growth of cancer cells that grow and divide rapidly.

The cancer chemotherapy cures cancer permanently, control the cancer cells growth or ease the cancer symptoms, depending upon the type and stage of cancer.

Cancer chemotherapy can be administered in a variety of ways: Orally- through mouth, Injections - Intravenously (into the vein), intramuscularly (into muscle), Intra-arterial (into the artery), subcutaneously (under the skin), Intralesionally (into the cancerous area), or topically – application of medications onto the skin.

Cancer Chemotherapy Side Effects

Cancer Chemotherapy drugs are designed to target fast-growing cancer cells. As they travel all through the entire body, they also target healthy normal cells that divide quickly. Damage to these healthy cells can lead to various side effects, which can last for short term or long term.

Hair loss, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, fatigue, loss of appetite, esophagitis, bleeding, infection, mouth sores, dry mouth, liver damage, heart damage, nerve damage, and/or lung damage are some of the short term side effects. These chemotherapy side effects usually subside soon after you stop cancer chemotherapy.

Breast cancer is the second most common form of cancer which is causing death to most of the women.

The main cause for breast cancer in a woman is still unknown. But there are certain factors which can increase the breast cancer risk in females.

Risk factor can be any thing which can improve the chances of developing the disease in you.

There are different kinds of Breast cancer risk factors like person’s age or race which cannot be avoided or it can due to your personal behavior, smoking and also consuming alcohol. Some factor can influence you more than the others.

Chemotherapy to reduce the risks of breast cancer:

Chemo therapy is a medical procedure in which you are treated with anti-biotics and drugs to decrease the breast cancer risk. It is a systematic therapy which can be used to treat many diseases other than cancer.

In this therapy, anti-cancerous drugs are given by injecting them into your body through veins and they can also be given in the form of tablets. Chemotherapy is mainly used to reduce the chances of breast cancer in women and it also reduces the recurrence of cancers in your body.

Chemotherapy is the use of anti cancer drugs for the treatment of cancer.

Chemotherapy usually comes in many forms including: pill, injection, or catheter.

Chemotherapy drugs enter the bloodstream and passes through the body targeting the most quickly dividing cells.

Although chemotherapy for treating cancer is often successful in killing the malignant cancer cells, it often causes intense side effects in the body.

It is because the anti-cancer drugs pass throughout the body affects all cells - cancer cells as well as normal healthy cells. So, any damage to these normal, healthy cells results in adverse chemotherapy side effects.

Chemotherapy affects those areas where the normal cells actively divide and grow. The major areas of your body where these anti cancer drugs affect are your hair, skin, the lining of the mouth, your digestive system, and bone marrow.

So, when your doctor recommends you for chemotherapy, it is good to know about chemotherapy side effects, its severity, how long the side effects last, and the need for medical attention.

Remember that chemotherapy side effects vary from drug to drug. The severity of chemotherapy side effects depends on the type of drug, its dosage, the method used, and the way your body reacts to the drug.

Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with powerful drugs to destroy leukemia cells by obstructing their development and reproduction.

These powerful drugs are generally known as “anticancer” drugs.

The drugs can be given intravenously (through a vein), by subcutaneously (injection under the skin), by intramuscularly (injected into muscle), by intrathecally (injected into cerebrospinal fluid), or by mouth.

In general, this therapy is used by itself or in combination with radiation therapy, surgery, hormonal therapy, biological therapy, or a combination of these.

The chemotherapy can be used to treat leukemia and its types.

Leukemia is a disease (cancer) that affects your bone marrow and blood and is characterized by the uncontrolled growth of blood cells. It is a rare disease with a very serious and severe condition, which can even lead to death. Moreover, treating your leukemia cancer may be painful and too hard.

The leukemia is divided into categories: myelogenous or lymphocytic where each of these can be acute or chronic. These two terms ‘myelogenous’ and ‘lymphocytic’ indicates the type of cell involved.