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Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to treat cancer.
It is usually administered through the form of iv therapy. The injected drugs zero in on fast splitting cells. Cancer cells are fast splitting cells as are hair cells. Chemotherapy drugs cannot discern between the two and this is the main reason why persons on chemotherapy lose their hair. It may be used prior to surgery to shrink tumors or after surgery to kill any remaining cancer cells that surgery couldn't remove.