Cancer Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy, also shortened and known as Chemo, is treatment with drugs that either kill cancer cells or prevent them from growing. Because of how they work, chemotherapy drugs will also have a similar effect on certain normal cells, causing a range of potentially serious side effects.

Chemotherapy for lymphoma often consists of several drugs given together, as a Combination Therapy. There are several advantages to using Combinations:
Different drugs damage or kill cancer cells in different ways making some more effective with certain types of cancer than others.

Combination Therapy provides a more effective way to kill tumor cells because using drugs together greatly improves the impact of the drugs on the cancer.
Drugs added together can be applied in lower doses, which helps reduce the likelihood and severity of side effects.

Prevent drug resistance

A single dose of chemotherapy drugs only kills a percentage of the cancer cells. As a result, multiple doses are necessary to try and kill all of the cancer cells.

Chemotherapy is scheduled as frequently as possible to minimize tumor growth, prevent the development of resistant cancer cells, and achieve the best treatment outcome.

A Chemotherapy treatment regimen is a combination of anticancer drugs given at a certain dose in specific sequence according to a strict schedule.