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No, it is a form of cancer treatment which uses toxic chemicals to kill cancer cells.
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I know chemotherapy uses chemical to treat cancer but are the chemical they use a virus?
No. All chemotherapy drugs are small molecules. None of them use a virus. There are some experimental cancer treatments that use a virus or part of a virus, but those therapies are called "gene therapy" rather than "chemotherapy".
What medicine could cause shingles?
Shingles : is caused by a virus name varicella zoster virus (VZV), and it is the same virus cause chickenpox.After an individual has chickenpox, this virus lives dormant in the nervous system and is never fully cleared from the body. Under certain circumstances, such as emotional Stress, immune deficiency (from AIDS or Chemotherapy), or with Cancerthe virus reactivates and causes shingles.so we can say that if you have chickenpox before, and you take medication that weakens you immune system ( immune-suppressant medications ) this may reactivate the virus and cause the shinglesExample of those medications :-Gluco-corticosteroid ( Cortisone )-Chemotherapy drugs ( like methotrexate )and others..
Can chemotherapy kill the HIV virus?
No, chemotherapy is not used in HIV/AID patients. The reason it is not is because HIV and AIDs deplete the white blood cells in your blood. White blood cells are what help you fight off disease and infection. Chemotherapy lowers your white blood cells as well, which lowers your immunity. So doing chemo and having AIDs at the same time doubly lowers your white blood cells, which makes the effect of AIDs worse. There is currently no known cure for AIDs.
What causes the reactivation of the virus?
It is believed that the reactivation is triggered when the immune system becomes weakened as a result of age, stress, fatigue , certain medications, chemotherapy, or diseases such as cancer or HIV.
How can you use chemotherapy in a sentence?
My brother has chemotherapy.
A sentence with the word chemotherapy?
my brother has chemotherapy
What questions should you ask before accepting a diagnosis of chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy is not a diagnosis. Chemotherapy is a treatment
What is intramuscular chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy given by intramuscular injection is absorbed into the blood more slowly than IV chemotherapy. Because of this, the effects of IM chemotherapy may last longer than chemotherapy given intravenously.
When taking chemotherapy will pregnant what does it do?
Chemotherapy can be harmful to a fetus. Consult your doctor if you are on chemotherapy and suspect you might be pregnant.
Are muscle relaxers an opiate?
No, not at all. It is a form of chemotherapy and immuno-suppressant.
When was Cancer Chemotherapy Reports created?
Cancer Chemotherapy Reports was created in 1959.
When did Cancer Chemotherapy Reports end?
Cancer Chemotherapy Reports ended in 1975.
