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Well, at most times the chemo is ment to help, but its not 100% sure it kills only the cancer cells. So if your lucky the chemo will only kill the cancer cells, but otherwise if you are unlucky it kills other cells before it gets to the cancer ones wich causes your body a lot of damage. So at my point it depends.

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