The skin will take a week or two to heal after the treatment has finished. Until the area is healed, you should keep it out of the sun, as this can make the inflammation worse. Occasionally chemotherapy for squamous cell cancer may be given by injection so that the drugs are carried around the body in the blood and reach cancer cells wherever they are. If the chemotherapy is by injection, it is usually given in the hospital outpatients department. How long the treatment takes to give, and how long the course of treatment will be, varies depending on the drugs that are being used.
Chemotherapy can cause unpleasant side effects.
These can usually be well controlled with medicine. Common problems include feelings of sickness, hair loss, reduced resistance to infection and a sore mouth. The side effects will disappear once the treatment is over. All rights reserved. Readers are strongly advised to discuss the information with their doctor.