In the treatment of cancer, the Thoracic Oncology Program at Johns Hopkins makes use of the latest techniques and medicines available.
Chemotherapy is the use of medicines to kill cancer cells.
These medicines or chemotherapy agents, usually given by vein or by mouth, can go through the blood stream and affect cancer cells located almost anywhere in the body. Chemotherapy has several different roles in the treatment of cancer. Because chemotherapy exerts its effects throughout the body, it can also cause side-effects throughout the body. Although some of these effects do vary from one drug to another, most drugs do share common side-effects. Fortunately, newly developed drugs have dramatically improved our ability to prevent and treat some of these effects.