What causes people to become pale during cancer treatment?
In: Biology
Most types of cancer treatments like chemo or radiation therapy are essentially an attempt to do extremely unhealthy and even deadly things to the body in hopes that the part of the body that has gone bad dies before the rest of the body does.
You are trying to target how you kill the patient so that right part gets killed first.
There still tends to be quite a lot of collateral damage though.
You can target your death rays and your poison at the cancer as much as you want, the rest of the body is going to take a hit too.
Patients develop all sorts of visible and invisible symptoms from the process.
It is far from perfect, but it beat dying from cancer most of the time.
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