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Chemotherapy is a cancer treatment that uses (injectable or oral) drugs to destroy cancer cells. It works by stopping or slowing the growth of cancer cells that grow and divide rapidly but it can also affect healthy cells. Damage to healthy cells can cause side effects, but often side effects disappear when chemotherapy is over.
Depending on the type of cancer and its stage, chemotherapy can:
Sometimes chemotherapy is the only treatment used in cancer care. But most often, chemotherapy is used in combination with surgery, radiotherapy or hormone therapy.
Chemotherapy can: