Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with an antineoplastic drug or with a combination of such drugs into a standardized treatment regimen.
The most common chemotherapy agents act by killing cells that divide rapidly, one of the main properties of most cancer cells. This means that chemotherapy also harms cells that divide rapidly under normal circumstances: cells in the bone marrow, digestive tract, and hair follicles. This results in the mos...
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Diseases with this Risk Factor:
- Leukemia ,
- Chronic myelogenous leukemia ,
- Acute myeloid leukemia ,
- Acute lymphoblastic leukemia ,
- Necrotizing fasciitis ,
- Anemia ,
- Aplastic anemia ,
- Sinusitis ,
- Pharyngitis ,
- Tonsillitis
