Chemotherapy primarily refers to the treatment of cancer with an antineoplastic drug or with a combination of such drugs into a standardized treatment regimen. Certain chemotherapy agents also have a role in the treatment of other conditions, including ankylosing spondylitis, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's disease, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma.
The most common chemotherapy agents act by killing cells that divide rapidly, one of the main properties of most cancer cells. This means that chemotherapy also harms cells that divide rapidly under normal circumstances: cells in the bone marrow, digestive tract, and hair follicles. This results in the most common side-effects of chemotherapy: myelosuppression (decreased production of blood cells, hence also immunosuppression), mucositis (inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract), and alopecia (hair loss).
Newer anticancer drugs act directly against abnormal proteins in cancer cells; this is termed targeted therapy and, in the technical sense, is not chemotherapy.
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It's so sad
I saw you with your man the other day,
He held your hand,
It fit like a glove
One and one complete, but one is complete
Two is company
It's so pathetic
And now I see it's just your insecurity
Your wants and your needs
It's so sad that you could lose yourself
So take the cure, even if it makes you bleed
And it's not easy
You know you said it yourself
It's just another Monday
She's just so afraid to leave him,
To sleep alone
She needs no one
She's just so afraid, but that part you know
She's just killing time on her own