Chemotherapy
Targeting rapidly dividing cells.
Chemotherapy works by choking the cells that are rapidly dividing in your body, which is what cancer cells do. Because this is a treatment that travels through the whole body, it is able to find roaming cancer cells beyond the original site.
The setback of chemotherapy is that it can’t tell between friendly rapidly dividing cells and the jerks that are invading your body. These friendly cells order you to trim your nails, cut your hair and make it so you don’t remember your burnt tongue for more than a couple days. These cells are also in charge of that lovely time of the month happening again and again.
In other words, your mouth, hair, nails, vagina, nose, intestinal tract and blood are affected by chemotherapy. But these guys are smart and know what to do to repair themselves. After all, they’ve had lots of practice. That’s why something like hair will grow back, you’ll have more energy and fight off infections better when treatment ends. And sometimes menstruation returns after months or even years.
Stay tuned for more information on the side effects of chemotherapy, coming soon to Worldwide Breast Cancer.
