Chemotherapy: What to Expect: Cancer Center: UI Health Topics

Chemotherapy What to Expect

Peer Review Status: Internally Reviewed by Cancer Center Staff
Creation Date: February 2004
Last Review Date: November 2006

Chemotherapy means treatment with chemicals or medicine. Most people use the term, chemotherapy or 'chemo', to mean treatment of cancer with medicines. Chemotherapy is one of the types of treatment for cancer. Surgery, for instance, removes the cancerous tumor. Radiation therapy kills cancer cells that are in the radiation's beam. Immunotherapy helps rid the body of cancer by improving the body's immune system. Chemotherapy interferes with the growth and division of cancer cells. Sometimes it takes all four of those cancer treatments to cure or control certain cancers.

Last modification date: Thu Dec 21 16:35:10 2006
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