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Chemotherapy is different than localized treatments of cancer because it is cytotoxic, or kills some of the blood cells in the body. In chemotherapy treatment, patients are given medication that travels throughout the body and destroys any cancer cells that are present.

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What refers to the killing of some blood cells as a result of chemotherapy?

Myelosuppression


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Can chemotherapy change blood type?

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Can chemotherapy help thicken blood?

Chemotherapy destroys actively growing cells such as hair, lining of stomach, and blood cells...because cancer is a tumor of fast growing cells. this is why people on chemotherapy get nausea and vomiting, and hair loss and become anemic. there are products that can be taken to increase RBC production, erythropoetin. This is what athletes use to increase their RBCs and therefore oxygen carrying capacity Therefore your blood doesn't get "thicker", you lose red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets etc. with chemotherapy.


Can mosquitoes die from sucking the blood of a person in chemotherapy treatment?

yes


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Chemotherapy goes through the body and destroys cells. Cancer cells are the weakest so they die first. The goal of chemo is to kill as many cancer cells as possible without killing the patient i.e. healthy cells. But unfortunately healthy cells die too. White blood cells are the first to go. Which is why they take your blood every week, to monitor your counts. There is a shot which can increase the white blood cell production rapidly so you can resume therapy without much break.


How does your body kill pathogens that get inside us?

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