Chemotherapy is a term used to describe the therapeutic intervention of disease with drugs. It is a common term used in cancer treatment circles. With the incidences of cancer disease on the rise, doctors have embraced chemotherapy as a modern technology to control body cells that turn cancerous and multiply at an uncontrollable rate (Epstein & Samuel, 26). The chemotherapy treatment process is one that has balanced positive and negative implications on the patient's quality of life. Besides the process offering a second chance to patients who are almost giving up on the cancer disease, it has equally many side effects that often turn unbearable to the soft-hearted. More than one hundred drugs are available and can be used singly or in combinations to eradicate any remaining cancer cells after a radiological or surgical treatment of the same (Greenwald & Edward, 9).
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With advanced disease stages, surgical interventions are undertaken to cut down the growing cancerous tissue after which chemotherapy is given to completely suppress the tumor. In cases of tumor recurrence, the chemo drugs are the most preferred treatment options. Cancer disease at its end stage is best managed by chemotherapy as part of the palliative care to relieve pain and better the quality of life (Walter & Patricia, 10).
Shrink tumors when abnormally growing cells form in a mass, this is known as a tumor. Often these tumors are excised in surgery to relieve the pressure they exert on the neighboring tissues and control their growth as well. However, the magnitude of some tumors is overwhelming such that they need to be shrunk before any surgical intervention is undertaken (Walter & Patricia, 11). Chemotherapy is therefore administered to reduce the tumor masses to a level that is manageable in