A close family member of mine, with terminal cancer , recently stopped chemo after 3 years because it created more problems than solving them eg blood problems, heart problems etc.
How does chemotherapy actually work? What is the aim of it?
In: Biology
In simple terms, the goal is to poison the cancer to death before the rest of the body dies.
This is possible because cancer reproduces very fast. Faster than almost all of your healthy cells. That extra metabolic activity makes them the most vulnerable to the poisons that are used in chemotherapy.
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