Russell Portenoy, M.D.: It is important to distinguish the direct effects of chemotherapy as it circulates in the body from the long-term effect that can continue after the body has eliminated the chemotherapy through normal metabolic pathways. Most chemotherapy is eliminated from the body fairly quickly, and the fatigue that patients experience after treatment is a prolonged effect that continues long after the chemotherapy is gone. A person should not assume that feeling fatigued means that the chemotherapy is still in the body. As we said before, fatigue has many possible causes and the experience of severe fatigue should be evaluated so that these causes can be identified and treated.
They may leave through liquid loss such as perspiration and urination.
because the drugs change the body and it's functions
what are four categories of chemotherapy drugs and describe their mechanism of action..
You get chemotherapy usually for malignancy. The expert will keep you admitted and then give the drugs, usually in intravenous fluids.
Methotrexate is a form of chemotherapy. No over the counter medications contain chemotherapy.
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It depends on the type of chemotherapy. My son was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. His protocol called for several different chemo drugs to be administered intravenously. He also takes two types of chemo drugs in a pill form.
Chemotherapy is administering drugs to fight diseases like cancer. Drugs are usually in an IV (intravenous) drug bag- a plastic bag- with a tube that carries the drugs to a needle placed in a vein.
A chemotherapy technician is a pharmacy technicianwho helps a pharmacist prepare the drugs used to treat cancer.
I think you mean chemotherapy... its the treatment of cancer by drugs, chemo-chemicals/drugs therapy-treatment look it up on wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemotherapy
Nothing works. It takes time and not using. Depending on the drug it can take 60-90 days to leave the body. Some drugs never leave the body.