Cancer Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy treatment is a useful treatment that gives relief from cancer. However, there is no such guarantee that there will be complete relief. There are some chemotherapy medicines which give relief but are quite hard to bear. They bring in many side effects.

Normally, your cells grow and get damaged in a controlled manner However, in cancer there is cell growth and it happens in an uncontrolled manner. Some of the side effects of cancer chemotherapy are nausea, vomiting, tiredness, pain and hair loss.

Because cancer cells may increase more rapidly than other normal cells, many medicines for cancer are made to completely eliminate the cancer cells from system. But in this process there is also some damage to good and healthy cells. Sometimes even the good and healthy organs get affected. This is something very dangerous. You must therefore be aware of the side effects completely before you plan to take up chemotherapy as an ultimate solution.

There are many kinds of side effects and they affect the people in some way or the other. Chemotherapy drugs are of many types. Some patients are given single drugs while others are given combination therapy. It all depends upon the condition of the patient and the doctor’s knowledge. Before you start chemotherapy, you must talk to the doctor in connection to dosage and regime of chemotherapy. This will give you to plan ahead about your chemotherapy sessions.

In some people there will be very serious side effects. And in some people the side effects will be really nominal and thus you never know how your boy will react unless and until you really undergo chemotherapy sessions. Discuss the side effects with thedoctor. Also discuss with him various remedial measures that would help you cope up with the side effects as associated with chemotherapy

However, one thing is worth noting and that is, soon after chemotherapy sessions are over all the side effects will go away. Only in a few cases it was seen that patients undergoing cancer chemotherapy had to face serious side effects in the form of permanent organ damage like kidneys, reproductive organs and so on.

It is seen that people undergoing chemotherapy have to face short term side effects and they recover from that soon. Normally, as soon as cancer cells are eliminated or discarded from the body, there are fewer chances that cancer will occur again. However, in some people there are still chances of getting cancer again.

It is true that the side effects that are associated with chemotherapy are quite unpleasant and unbearable. But one stage will come when you have to decide that whether you want to stay rest of the little life in pain or you want a good future ahead soon after bearing the chemotherapy pain. The decision is completely yours. Some people withdraw themselves from chemotherapy and choose a short life either. Now, this is a subjective choice and it can not be influenced by your prejudice and thoughts about the levels of pain as associated with chemotherapy.