What is chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy is a cancer treatment that uses drugs to destroy cancer cells. It is also called "chemo."
Today, there are many different kinds of chemotherapy. So the way you feel during treatment may be very different from someone else.
How can chemotherapy help me?
Chemotherapy can be used to:
- Destroy cancer cells.
- Stop cancer cells from spreading.
- Slow the growth of cancer cells.
Chemotherapy can be given alone or with other treatments. It can help other treatments work better. For example, you may get chemotherapy before or after surgery or radiation therapy. Or you may get chemotherapy before a peripheral blood stem cell transplant.
