Chemotherapy : Recent Study
A landmark study published recently has reported that about a fifth of chemotherapy drugs tested failed quality tests; 16 of the 17 implicated manufacturers are India-based.
- Chemotherapy is a treatment that uses medicines to destroy cancer cells.
- There are many different types of chemo. They don’t all work exactly the same way, so different types of chemo might be used for different types of cancer.
- Most are given as an infusion into a vein (IV), but some are given as an injection, taken as pills, or applied to the skin.
- Chemo is a systemic treatment.
- It travels through the bloodstream to reach all parts of your body.
- It can kill cancer cells that have spread (metastasized) to parts of the body far away from the original (primary) tumor or cancer cells in blood cancers, such as leukemia, that have spread throughout the body.
- This makes chemo different from local treatments like surgery and radiation, which only affect one part of the body.
