Chemotherapy explained 5 Articles

by Lynne G

Chemotherapy is a way of life for millions of cancer patients in the United States and world wide. While not necessarily a cure for cancer, it is one of the standard treatments along with surgery or radiation therapy depen...read more

by Laura Tierney PhD

Because the word chemotherapy is intertwined with a diagnosis of cancer, it has become a very daunting term. Realistically the treatment of innumerable diseases includes drug therapy on some level. Countless temporary an...read more

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by Lynda Appell

Chemotherapy is using chemicals to get rid of cancer cells. Please note this is general information. Each malignancy is different. Every patient is an individual. Please talk to your treatment team. The sources used her...read more

by Norma Chew

Chemotherapy began in 1940 with the use of nitrogen mustard and folic acid, an antagonistic drug. According to Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia, two pharmacologists Louis S. Goodman and Alfred Gilman were recruited by the Unite...read more

by onyachonam Chukuma

There are various types of Cancer today,some presenting with difficult prognosis,and some presenting latently, but the use of chemotherapy and radiation has proved to be efficient in the study and sometimes, cure of this d...read more