What exactly is chemotherapy and how does it work?
In: Biology
The other answers are correct. The actual word breaks down to chemical therapy. It’s using chemicals to fight a disease. The exact way they do that might vary depending on which chemicals are used exactly.
Currently, it’s exactly as said. Cancer cells are greedy so they should take up more of the bad chemicals than the rest of you. It’s usually a mix of chemicals to try and kill tumors that might have more than one cell mutation, which makes them hard to kill 100% (also why cancer might come back later).
The aim for chemotherapy in the future is target the cancer cells better so those cells will die and we don’t have to deal with as many gnarly side-effects of the chemicals.
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