{"id":16277,"date":"2021-12-22T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundacjarakiety.pl\/?p=16277"},"modified":"2021-12-22T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T11:03:10","slug":"czym-jest-i-jak-dziala-chemioterapia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacjarakiety.pl\/en\/czym-jest-i-jak-dziala-chemioterapia\/","title":{"rendered":"What is chemotherapy and how does it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chemotherapy, next to radiotherapy and surgery, is one of the so-called systemic treatment. This is a complicated method that requires a lot of resources the patient is administered drugs that affect the cell cycle (i.e. cell transformation), and thus inhibit cell proliferation.<\/strong> These drugs are so-called cytostatics. They cause the death of rapidly dividing cells, which include cancer cells. Thanks to this, the cancer does not grow and the disease does not progress. Unfortunately, the drugs taken do not have a selective effect, they also affect other normal, rapidly dividing cells, i.e. bone marrow cells, gastrointestinal mucosa cells, hair cells. This causes side effects that may appear both during its use and after completion of treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE MOST COMMON ARE:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n


\u2022 NAUSEA AND VOMITING
\u2022 HAIR LOSS
\u2022 BONE MARROW DAMAGE
\u2022 ANEMIA
\u2022 WEAKENING THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
\u2022 CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

OTHER SIDE EFFECTS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE:<\/p>\n\n\n\n