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Originally Posted by Elli
I've read that chemo is an attempt to kill the cancer cells, but it's mostly a hope that the cancer dies before the rest of the body does. How terrible  |
Yeah, chemo is basically toxic chemicals being delivered to your body which are targeted to hit the cancer area. Sometimes the chemo is quite highly targeted, sometimes they are much more general. In any case, they are never perfectly targeted and some tissue will always get hit as a necessary casualty of war.
Chemo is rarely successful on its own - it's quite successful with surgery though, as the surgery gets rid of the mass and the chemo combo hits the trailing cells missed.