Chemotherapy is one of many therapeutic methods we can use in our fight against cancer. More specifically, it involves the use of drugs to tackle the disease and to destroy cancer cells. Chemotherapy is used in different ways. Sometimes the drugs are administered singularly, and sometimes in combination, should the specialist doctor decide that this might work better for a specific patient. It could also be used together with radiotherapy and/or surgical procedures, with the aim of getting rid of the cancer totally, and keeping it from coming back. It is often used as a precaution after the surgeon has removed a malignant tumor, so that if there are other cancerous cells which haven’t been located elsewhere in the body through lab tests, maybe the drugs could do the job. In this way there could be a significant reduction of the possibility of some sort of relapse.

Sometimes, Chemotherapy is administered prior to surgery in order to protect the body from any circulating cells and also to reduce the tumor, which makes the operation easier. Finally, it is also administered when the disease is widespread and no other therapeutic method cannot, and in some case should not, be applied.