Chemotherapy Treatment Information

CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT INFORMATION

The use of chemicals to treat cancer is intruiging, especially since the biogical processes of cancer can be understood in chemical terms. Chemotherapy is using various "agents" to poison cancer cells, which usually divide at a quicker rate than normal cells. It was first discovered that the Mustard Gas used in World War I destroyed quickly dividing cells in the bone marrow, and experiments with Mustard Gas derivatives, called "alkylating agents" at Stanford University in the 1940's layed the basis for chemotherapy to treat lymphoma (white blood cell cancer).

Medical Oncology is the subspecialty of treating cancer with chemotherapy, and it requires at total training of 6 years after medical school (3 years of Internal Medicine or Pediatrics and 3 years of subspecialty training). Our In-Depth Transcript is Oncologist written, and describes the theory behind how chemotherapy works, what a patient can expect in and goes into detail about the side-effects of chemotherapy and how to best manage them for safety and comfort.

Readers will truly have an In-Depth understanding of how this common therapy is used today, which will exceed what many Primary Care doctors remember about it. The field of Medical Oncology has undergone rapid advancement in the past 2 decades, with today's new practitioners experienced in Bone Marrow Transplant and a host of agents that have been recently developed. Learn in detail how chemotherapy is used and what to expect of treatment by ordering this Plain English transcript today.

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