For about 60 years are used for cytotoxic chemotherapy for cancer. Simplified translated the term cytostatic "cell stopper means": Such substances prevent cells at the division and put them to death. Many cytotoxic drugs to put on to the genetic material. Others block important metabolic processes in cell division. Because these are very basic operations that contribute almost all cellular toxins, not only on cancer cells: Does are - to varying degrees - all the fast-regenerating tissue. Typical side effects of many cytotoxic drugs are therefore temporary impairment of blood cell formation, or even hair loss. Nausea and vomiting, much feared by many patients, can now be largely suppressed by concomitant medications.
Although most people appear to chemotherapy as a cancer therapy simply: Not all cancer patients receiving cytotoxic drugs. Still, surgery and radiation are numerically compared with the more common forms of treatment. The possible applications of cytotoxic drugs, however, have expanded a lot: Chemotherapy can now also help shrink a tumor so that it generally only becomes operable. And many patients provides so-called adjuvant treatment following surgery or radiation greater protection against relapse.
How important is the chemotherapy today? When it makes sense, when not? Which developments can expect cancer patients? The following texts will provide the Cancer Information Service stakeholders and interested parties an overview. The conversation with the attending physicians about the possibilities of chemotherapy in the personal situation can not replace information from the Internet, however.
The source was, unless specifically indicated, for example, used the guidelines for cancer treatment, to publish the various medical and scientific societies. Also used were pharmaceutical professional information on individual substances. One of the fundamental processes around chemotherapy and current textbooks of cancer medicine has been used as a basis.
An overview of the role of chemotherapy in the treatment of common tumor types provide the texts in the category "Cancers. Here lists the Cancer Information Service Free brochures on "Chemotherapy" on.
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