Importance of chemotherapy in cancer treatment

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• How is chemotherapy done? Is it painful?

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• Introduction

• Cancer is a disease where the cell divide
  uncontrollably.
• The only treatment for cancer is to stop the
  division of the cell, which is impossible in most
  cases
• But since science claim to have a solution for
  everything, Chemotherapy is one of the best ways
  to cure a cancer patient.
• It uses anti-cancer drugs and medicines that kill
  the dividing cells.
• The factors on which the process depends include
  patients health, stage of cancer, location of
  cancer cells and previous treatment.
• Chemotherapy in Bangalore is common and a vast
  population nowadays are a victim to this disease.

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• How it can be done?
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• There are different methods by which chemotherapy
  is done. Orally and intravenous is mainly used as
  the process for chemotherapy, which mainly deals
  with-
• Orally
• There are pills, which are taken orally by the
  patients for Chemotherapy. This process totally
  depends on the stage of cancer and the health of
  the patient. In this process, the patient can
  take the pills as per advised by the physician.
  The medicine comes in the form of capsules and is
  one of the easiest ways to cure a cancer patient.
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• Intravenous
• It is one of the most effective processes in
  chemotherapy. The process through which
  intravenous can be done is listed below-
• It is generally done by injecting the drugs into
  the veins through injections.
• It is injected directly into the tumour depending
  on the location of the tumour.
• It can be done by intraperitoneal (IP) method.
  Injecting directly to the infected organs like
  chest, intestine and stomach are performed.
• A process like intra-arterially (IA) are given
  directly to cancer-causing arteries

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• Other methods
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• Other than that, there are a few more methods
  through which cancer can be treated. Treatment
  for skin cancer is different from other cancers.
  The patient does not have to go through the
  difficult intravenous process or taste the pills.
  The drugs are in an ointment form, which is
  applied to the skin or affected area. The liquid
  process is different from the intravenous
  process. A needle is inserted as a port through
  which the medicine is given a drop by drop. It is
  painful for the first time but later on, the pain
  eases.
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• Is chemotherapy painful?
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• Although most of the diseases like cancer are
  painful and stressful, cure also has to be tough
  enough so that it can treat the affected part of
  the body. For cancer treatment, chemotherapy is a
  bit painful method since it involves taking
  things into your veins. At first, it gives
  burning sensation and the patient feels uneasy
  but with time, the patient may develop a habit.

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• Chemotherapy after effects
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• The general side effects of chemotherapy are
  mouth sores, vomiting, diarrhoea, pain in legs
  and arms and numbness. It also causes pain due to
  damage of nerve cells, which is called peripheral
  neuropathy.
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• Cancer patients go through a lot of changes
  during the treatment of the disease. The drugs,
  which are
• used for the treatment are strong enough that
  sometimes leads to emotional imbalance like
  depression.
• A cancer patient needs utmost care and emotional
  support for recovering through the lowest phase
  of
• their life. Bangalore is one of the profound
  places for chemotherapy treatment. Fortis Cancer
  Institute is
• one of the best cancer treatment hospital in
  bangalore which provides Chemotherapy in
  Bangalore is one of the best in our country.

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