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 DENOMINATION
- Chemotherapy in the cancer,
- Treatment with medicines in the cancer,
- Chemotherapy citotóxica.
Sometimes commonly there are called vaccines of the cancer.
DEFINITION
The chemotherapy includes all kinds of medicines that are used to kill the microorganisms (bacteria, virus, fungi) and the cancerous cells. But more commonly nowadays one speaks about chemotherapy to the treatment with medicines to treat the cancer.
The chemotherapy is a generic expression that includes many medicines that possess activity to destroy cancerous cells but his time they have many collateral effects of big variety and intensity.
In general, the medicines of the chemotherapy of the cancer it destroys or stops the growth of the cancerous cells by means of the intervention of specific points of the cellular cycle. As the cancerous cells are of more rapid growth that the normal cells turn out to be more affected in these points of his maturation and die.
But it is necessary to bear in mind that the normal cells share this maturation, to slower rhythm, and therefore also they turn out to be injured persons or are destroyed by the chemotherapy, what causes his collateral effects.
The normal cells that are of rapid growth as there can be the cells of the blood and of the hair are those who usually suffer principally his side effects.
The investigation of these medicines centers that are more specific in injuring the cancerous cells and not the normal ones, for it the evolution of the chemotherapy of the cancer is going to be in this sense more effective and less poisonous.
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