Chemotherapy Overview

What Is Chemotherapy And How Does It Work?

Second only to heart disease in the western world, Cancer is expected to affect around one third of the population at some time in their lives. With increasing awareness of the disease and what causes it, people are become more aware of want can cause cancer to enter their bodies and art taking steps to change their lifestyle. Smoking is now known to be a major factor in causing lung cancer for example, and percentage of smokers in western society is certainly on the decrease.

What is generally considered the key to triggering cancer is damage caused a person's DNA (DeoxyriboNucleic Acid). DNA is a substance that exists in every cell and in most cases when a DNA cell becomes damaged, the human body has the capability to self repair. However, cells that become cancerous are irreparable without outside influence. A fact that is unknown to many, that a cancer liable DNA system is genetic, however changes in our lifestyle is now regarded as the largest cause of cancer especially the effects of smoking, causing active and passive cancer.

In conventional medicine, chemotherapy means treating a cancer with drugs to kill the cancerous cells. These drugs are either introduced into the cancer sufferer's body intravenously or orally. Based around using powerful cytotix drugs, that ostensibly flows through the cancer sufferer's blood stream seeking out cancerous cells; chemotherapy is deemed to be effective but has notorious side effects.

Because of the effects that the powerful drugs on the patient's system, chemotherapy is administered in cycles. Usually, the patient requires a long recovery period between each cycle of treatment, with the total chemotherapy course lasting a grueling three to six months.

The reason why chemotherapy treatment is so grueling is that cytotix drugs do not differentiate between cancerous cells and normal healthy cells and kills them both. The apparent logic behind this theory within conventional medicine is that cancerous cells grow twice as fact as normal cells and by constant treatment eventually the disease will be killed of in the patient's body. With a clean bill of health, the normal cells will eventually replace themselves and the patient will make a full recovery. This in many cases has proven to be true, but at tremendous costs to the patient's general health and well being.

The public are becoming increasingly aware of alternatives to chemotherapy.
Known as holistic medicine, this treatment involves the intake of certain herbal treatments, which have produced remarkable results for people who have been diagnosed with cancer. Some sufferers have opted to be treated only through this method, which has no negative side effects, only positive ones, and have walked away from the disease intact. Those who discovered holistic medicine only after completing a course of chemotherapy have also witnessed the cancer leave their body entirely. In a few cases, where cancer sufferers were diagnosed to be in the terminal stages of the disease, saw the cancers disappear from their bodies entirely.

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