A Child's Eye View of Radiation Therapy . This book helps explain radiation therapy to children as well as their parents. The staff prides itself on its rendering of compassionate care to both patients and families and takes a great deal of time preparing them for therapy through the use of personalized education, both one on one and using video learning. Chemotherapy Treatment Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to treat cancer. Most cancer-fighting drugs in use today have been developed in the last four decades.
Chemotherapy acts on cells that divide rapidly, which includes some tumor cells.
The drugs interfere with division of the cell, the cell's method of reproduction. If the cell is unable to reproduce, it will eventually die without another cell to replace it. The net effect, then, is a decreased number of tumor cells. Unfortunately, chemotherapy also affects normal cells that divide rapidly. Normal cells most affected by these drugs are cells of the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract, hair follicles, and some reproductive organ cells.