What exactly is chemotherapy and how does it work?
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The idea is to introduce a chemical or chemicals that are taken up more readily by cancer cells than normals cells with the intent of stopping them from dividing and or outright killing them. The idea here is while yes they damage the rest of the cells in your body they do more to these cells that are turbo charged into rapid division which means more uptake of resources. So that in the war of attrition that is chemo the bad cells die out far faster than they can be replaced and faster than your cells are destoryed.
It is very much blowing up an ant hill with a bomb and hoping to blow up the ants before you level everything else around it. And take it from someone with stage 3 cancer some of those meds really really suck.
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