chemotherapy or cancer ?which is the real killer?

Answer 1

Cancer kills. One of the unfortunate consequences of chemotherapy is that not all patients respond well to it for a multitude of reasons. Some cancers are too advanced, or the tumors are wrapped around vital organs, structures, veins, and chemo has little effect. Or worse, the patient is too frail to receive the dosage necessary to kill cancer. Some cancers are grotesque enough that they build up a resistance to all attempts to kill it. When patients cancers fail to respond to chemotherapy or when they stop responding to chemotherapy . . than few effective treatment options remain, there is a progression of disease that begins to overwhelm the body and the patient dies. It is not the chemotherapy that kills them . . it is the spreadding of cancer.

Answer 2

Without the cancer, they wouldn't be giving chemotherapy. Chemotherapy can now be specifically genetically targeted to certain types of cancer. Cancer used to mean an automatic death sentence. Chemotherapy, etc., has not only given people a fighting chance, it has cured some people. Cancer is the killer. Chemo can make you mighty sick, but cancer will make you mighty DEAD.

Answer 3

Cancer love. It spreads fast and takes over causing harm and pain.

Chemotherapy is designed to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy can be administered through a vein, injected into a body cavity, or delivered orally in the form of a pill, depending on which drug is used.

Chemotherapy works by destroying cancer cells; unfortunately, it cannot tell the difference between a cancer cell and some healthy cells. So chemotherapy eliminates not only the fast-growing cancer cells but also other fast-growing cells in your body, including, hair and blood cells.

Some cancer cells grow slowly while others grow rapidly. As a result, different types of chemotherapy drugs target the growth patterns of specific types of cancer cells. Each drug has a different way of working and is effective at a specific time in the life cycle of the cell it targets.

An undesirable consequence of chemotherapy affecting your body—not related to your cancer—is referred to as a complication of treatment, or a side effect. Some common side effects of chemotherapy are:

Low white blood cell count
Low red blood cell count
Low platelet count
Nausea
Vomiting
Hair loss
Fatigue

Some side effects may be temporary and uncomfortable. Some can cause dose reductions and treatment delays or even be life-threatening.

For example, one of the most serious potential side effects of chemotherapy is a low count of infection-fighting white blood cells—a condition called neutropenia (new-troh-PEE-nee-ah). Neutropenia can interrupt your chemotherapy schedule and put you at risk for infections that may require hospitalization and may even be life-threatening.

Fortunately, significant progress has been made in the development of "proactive" therapies that help you manage the side effects of chemotherapy.

Answer 4

Well technically, they BOTH kill. Cancer eats you up from the inside. The whole point of chemotherapy is to blast your body with toxic levels of radiation to kill cancerous cells in your body...but not so much radiation that it actually takes you with it. Chemo isn't healthy for you, but given the alternative (a slow death from cancer)...well, you know..

Answer 5

Almost all th cancers are preventable and most of them are manageable at early stages of detection. Chemotherapy is a way to suppress the cancer cells which yields in immuno-suppression too and therefore brings some dangers.
The real killers are cigarette, fats, alcohol and chemical agents that we eat!

Answer 6

1 is the cure the other is the killer(cancer)the cancer is the killer
i have lost a few family members to it, the pain becomes unlivable, where the chemo doesn't cause the pain

Answer 7

Cancer of course. Chemo should help to get better even though it's hard to believe. My aunt and a friend had chemo. Now a days, they are still alive working and all. Hang in there

Answer 8

chemothereapy if administered right is designed to aleveate or remission or remove cancer so i would say cancer is the killer for it is better to try to do what you can to fix something then nothing at all and let what could have been fixed kill you.atleast then you will know you have done something to try to survive rather then give up on yourself or the possibilites.

Answer 9

The real killer is your body. How your body react to all that stuff raging inside you both chemo and cancer. As long as the body can handle it then no problem.

Answer 10

chemotherapy is the killing pain to kill the real killer "cancer"