Today, Chemotherapy being one of the main staples of cancer treatment, prolonging life of the patient and even killing of the cancerous cells that caused the ailment in some cases. the drug consists of one or more anticancer drugs and is designed to target the rogue cells that caused the cancerous tumor.The drugs they use are Varied but they include Abiraterone Acetate, Abitrexate (Methotrexate), Abraxane (Paclitaxel Albumin-stabilized Nanoparticle Formulation) ABVD, ABVE ,ABVE-PC,AC Chemo is normally transmitted through Intravenous fluids (IV), but is also offered in the form of Injection. The chemotherapy is given by a shot in a muscle in your arm, thigh, or hip or right under the skin in the fatty part of your arm, leg, or bell Intra-arterial
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The chemotherapy comes in a cream that you rub onto your skin.Orally. The chemotherapy comes in pills, capsules, or liquids that you swallow all of which attack the rogue cells to either slow down or potentially kill the ailment. Now, while there is no real cure for cancer, some patients have had luck with chemo killing off all of the cancer and it not returning, but for most it just halts and prevents the disease from metastasizing (spreading beyond the origin into other parts of the body). Just like with most prescription, it has its side effects, they can be serious, they include vomiting, pain and weakness, tiredness and nausea. Because these side effects they eventually will have to stop because it makes you even sicker, but not only that, but eventually it will have no effect on the tumor, but it should have shrunk the tumor enough where they can remove it or if needed they will move on to radiation therapy. some cancers such as liver can be very difficult to treat, especially when it hits the bile duct, that's the worst case scenario, in this case chemo will only prolong the life of the …show more content…
His doctors gave him a 3 year time at best before he died, that's with chemo...he beat the odds, he survived 5 years after his diagnosis. eventually the chemo had no effect and he got progressively worse, it reached his bile duct and began spreading beyond his liver into the rest of his body. he died from renal failure (total organ failure) on october 29 at 5:00 PM 2011. the whole point of this paper is trying to get across to let people know that chemotherapy while being one of the best and major treatments, it's not a miracle drug and it is really just designed to prolong your life. By no means should you rely on chemo to cure you of cancer, while it may, but it may not work that way for you. the truth is cancer is one of the things that you either survive or die trying to survive, and it really relies on how early you detect it . chemo can only work so well and hard, it's not the perfect cancer treatment ,the side effects have a big part in why it's not the perfect treatment, but the biggest part is that it is really only designed to prolong life , but in some cases ot cures them, but for most it's not the
The chemotherapy comes in a cream that you rub onto your skin.Orally. The chemotherapy comes in pills, capsules, or liquids that you swallow all of which attack the rogue cells to either slow down or potentially kill the ailment. Now, while there is no real cure for cancer, some patients have had luck with chemo killing off all of the cancer and it not returning, but for most it just halts and prevents the disease from metastasizing (spreading beyond the origin into other parts of the body). Just like with most prescription, it has its side effects, they can be serious, they include vomiting, pain and weakness, tiredness and nausea. Because these side effects they eventually will have to stop because it makes you even sicker, but not only that, but eventually it will have no effect on the tumor, but it should have shrunk the tumor enough where they can remove it or if needed they will move on to radiation therapy. some cancers such as liver can be very difficult to treat, especially when it hits the bile duct, that's the worst case scenario, in this case chemo will only prolong the life of the …show more content…
His doctors gave him a 3 year time at best before he died, that's with chemo...he beat the odds, he survived 5 years after his diagnosis. eventually the chemo had no effect and he got progressively worse, it reached his bile duct and began spreading beyond his liver into the rest of his body. he died from renal failure (total organ failure) on october 29 at 5:00 PM 2011. the whole point of this paper is trying to get across to let people know that chemotherapy while being one of the best and major treatments, it's not a miracle drug and it is really just designed to prolong your life. By no means should you rely on chemo to cure you of cancer, while it may, but it may not work that way for you. the truth is cancer is one of the things that you either survive or die trying to survive, and it really relies on how early you detect it . chemo can only work so well and hard, it's not the perfect cancer treatment ,the side effects have a big part in why it's not the perfect treatment, but the biggest part is that it is really only designed to prolong life , but in some cases ot cures them, but for most it's not the