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About Chemotherapy Drugs
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About the Side Effects of Alimta Chemotherapy
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About the Side Effects of Chemotherapy for Stomach Cancer
About the Side Effects of Mitosis Chemotherapy
About the Side Effects of Taxel Chemotherapy
About the Side Effects of Taxol Chemotherapy
About the Side Effects of Topical Chemotherapy
All Chemotherapy Drugs & Their Side Effects
Chemicals Used in Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy Side Effects: Skin
Chemotherapy Tablets & Side Effects
Common Side Effects of Cisplatin Chemotherapy
Effects of Chemotherapy on PET Imaging
Lasting Effects of Chemotherapy
Long-Term Side Effects From Chemotherapy
Nutrition for Chemotherapy Side Effects
Physical Effects of Chemotherapy
Side Effects of Chemotherapy on Dogs
Side Effects of Low-Dose Chemotherapy
Types of Chemotherapy
Types of Chemotherapy Drugs
What Is Chemotherapy?
Side Effects of Chemo for Colon Cancer
Sexual Side Effects of Chemotherapy
Side Effects From a Chemotherapy Overdose
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Summary: Chemotherapy drugs by killing any cells in the body that are rapidly dividing in order to stop cancer cells from multiplying and growing. Find out how most the cells in the body are not rapidly dividing, and are therefore not affected by chemotherapy, with information from a doctor in this free video on chemotherapy and cancer treatments.
Dr. David Cathcart has been a family doctor and occupational medicine specialist for more than 20 years. He works at Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, Mo.read more
"Hello I'm Dr. David Cathcart, I'm a family practice physician from Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph. And we're going to talk about chemotherapy drugs and their side effects today. Chemotherapy drugs are medications that are used to interrupt the rapid growth of cancerous cells. Now there is a whole wide variety of these medications that are on the market. And some of them have more side effects than others. But in general, these drugs work on rapidly dividing cells, so that any cell that's growing or in it's state of division as it grows and multiplies, can be effected by the chemotherapy drug. These chemotherapy drugs tend to interrupt the cells growth or replication in various stages of the cell growth cycle. So that any cell that is growing can be effected by the chemotherapy drug. So for example, if you have a cancer cell that is growing rapidly, and you have other cells that are also growing. For example, hair cells, the cancer chemotherapy drug does not really care if it is dealing with a cancer cell or if it is dealing with a hair cell. So either way, it will kill those cells that are dividing. And in most cases it doesn't touch the cells that are not dividing. The good news is for us is that for cancer cells that are rapidly dividing, most of our other cells in our body like our skin, and our eyes, and our big toe is not rapidly dividing, so those are not effected too much. So that's how the cancer chemotherapy drugs are, and that's essentially how they do their job. This is Dr. Cathcart talking about what are cancer chemotherapy drugs."
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