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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.
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Why do people vomit after chemotherapy?
because the drugs change the body and it's functions
What are four categories of chemotherapy drugs and describe their mechanism of action?
what are four categories of chemotherapy drugs and describe their mechanism of action..
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".
How do you get chemotherapy?
You get chemotherapy usually for malignancy. The expert will keep you admitted and then give the drugs, usually in intravenous fluids.
What otc drugs contain methotrexate?
Methotrexate is a form of chemotherapy. No over the counter medications contain chemotherapy.
The use of drugs to kill cancer cells?
chemotherapy
What types of drugs would an oncologist prescribe?
chemotherapy
What metabolizes chemotherapy drugs?
B. kidneys and liver
How is chemotherapy administered to a lymphoma patient?
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.
What does chemotherapy look like?
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.
What is a chemotherapy technician?
A chemotherapy technician is a pharmacy technicianwho helps a pharmacist prepare the drugs used to treat cancer.
What products work best at masking drugs in the blood?
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.
