Chemo Treatment

Chemo treatment relies on chemicals that destroy cells considered ill especially those that are cancerous or of micro-organism origin. In case of cancer, the two forms that are most often referred to are leukemia and lymphoma. There are also some cases in which the chemotherapy treatment is applied even if the condition the patient suffers from is not cancer. In this case, the dosage of chemicals used in the procedure is lower and as a result side effects will be alleviated.

Once someone is discovered with cancer, first of all it is important to identify what type of cancer the doctors are dealing with, where in the body the cancer started as. Depending on these factors, the combination of drugs may differ. In all, there are more that 200 types of cancer out of which some more commonly encountered forms affect breasts, the gall bladder, the larynx, the liver, the lungs, the lymph nodes, the ovaries, the skin and so on. Depending on which type of cancer is discovered, doctors will recommend either a singular medication or a cocktail of drugs in the form of a chemo treatment. In all, there are more than fifty drugs that are recommended worldwide in chemotherapy treatments.