Your child s physician will explain the benefits of the available central lines. Many of these modifiers are normally found in the body and assist with the immune system's ability to protect the body against invasion. In addition, physicians are using the body s own processes to fight disease. In the near future, there may be a development that can make our bodies recognize cancer cells and destroy them or simply filter them out like common viruses. The two most common forms of treatment for cancer include chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
Chemotherapy is a medication that can help fight cancer.
In most cases, chemotherapy works by interfering with the cancer cell s ability to grow or reproduce. Different groups of drugs work in different ways to fight cancer cells. Often a combination of chemotherapy drugs is used to fight a specific cancer. Chemotherapy interferes with fast-growing cancer cells, but it also affects some healthy cells. Some chemotherapy may affect the function of these organs either during treatment or months to years after treatment.