Anticancer drugs work by destroying cancer cells, stopping them from growing or multiplying. To keep cancer from spreading. When chemotherapy is given along with other treatments it is often referred to as adjuvant chemotherapy. The oncologist will, in addition to general recommendations about treatment, evaluate your need for chemotherapy. Cancer cells grow in an uncontrolled manner, and they may break away from their original site and spread to other parts of the body.
Anticancer drugs disrupt the cancer cells ability to grow and multiply.
Chemotherapy can be given in several ways. The best way to get the drug to the cancer site depends on the particular type of cancer and the drug or combination of drugs used. Once in the blood, an anticancer drug is carried throughout the body to reach as many cancer cells as possible How fast the cells are destroyed may vary with different medicines and types of cancers. Anticancer drugs can affect normal tissue also, because they act on rapidly dividing cells in the body. Most normal cells are able to recover quickly when the treatment is over.