Low-dose Chemotherapy is being studied/used in the treatment of cancer to avoid the side effects of conventional chemotherapy. Historically, oncologists have used the highest possible dose that the body can tolerate in order to kill as many cancer cells as possible. After high-dose treatments the body reacts, sometimes quite severely. Infections from external causes become a leading threat of death.
Some have suggested that the chemotherapy "cure...
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Low-dose Chemotherapy is being studied/used in the treatment of cancer to avoid the side effects of conventional chemotherapy. Historically, oncologists have used the highest possible dose that the body can tolerate in order to kill as many cancer cells as possible. After high-dose treatments the body reacts, sometimes quite severely. Infections from external causes become a leading threat of death.
Some have suggested that the chemotherapy "cure is worse than the cancer" because of the hair loss and constant vomiting that are so common in chemo patients. Some in the patient community state that death by chemotherapy is actually common. They claim the incidence of death by chemotherapy is invisible to most researchers because of the way that deaths are reported to the authorities.
The following forms of low-dose chemotherapy have been proposed. They are not always widely available treatments at hospitals.
Patients are given chemotherapy drugs orally very frequently. This approach can...
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