Advantages & disadvantages
What is involved in chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy uses chemicals to destroy rapidly dividing cells, such as cancer cells. Other normal cells in your body which divide rapidly (blood cells, hair cells, cells lining your gastrointestional tract, etc.) may also be affected and destroyed by chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy is given as a pill, or intravenously (injection into the vein). The drug travels in the bloodstream to the entire body. A drug regime is chemotherapy which involves a combination of several different drugs.