Chemotherapy can cure certain forms of cancer.
Some of these patients have been in remission longer than five years and may, in fact, be cured. Multiple carcinomas of the superficial layers of the skin have been eradicated after the application of certain cancer-drug ointments to the skin. Wilms' tumor, for example, is often curable when cancer drugs are used in combination with surgery and radiation. Many other forms of cancer benefit temporarily or partially by chemotherapy. Some cancers are resistant to drugs, however.