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Chemotherapy Treatment in India - Cost & Best Doctors

Chemotherapy treatment is a specialized treatment where aggressive chemical drugs are administered to the cancer patient so that the cancer cells in the body are stopped from growing and killed. This is one of the most widely adopted treatments to curb cancer cell growth thereby successfully treating cancer patients. Chemotherapy treatment uses a huge range of chemical/anti-cancer drugs, but how it affects the patients may highly depend on the stage of cancer. Chemotherapy treatment is many times performed on a patient using a combination of other cancer treatments, like cancer surgery, radiotherapy, or hormonal therapy. The combination that is chosen depends on the following factors:

The type and stage/intensity of cancer
Overall health
The effectiveness of earlier cancer treatments
A site of the cancer
Patient's own personal choice for cancer treatment

What are the Uses of Chemotherapy Treatment?

Most of the types, after cancer surgery is performed, the surgeon may highly recommend a chemotherapy treatment in order to kill the lingering cancer cells, in case there are any. Sometimes the doctor may first use a chemotherapy treatment to shrink the tumor and then perform the cancer surgery.

In other cases, chemotherapy treatment is also used to relieve pain. However, the main uses of chemotherapy treatment are:

Curb and kill the cancer cells in your body
Avoid the possibility of spreading of cancer
To shrink the size of tumor
To bring down the symptoms of the cancer

What are the Types of Chemotherapy?

Injections: In this type of chemotherapy treatment, the anti-cancer drugs are administered via an injection into body muscle which can be at the thigh, arm or hip, thigh or in the fatty muscles present in your arm, stomach or leg.
Intra-arterial (IA): In this method, the drugs are discharged directly into the bloodstream or the artery which is feeding cancer, via equipment like a catheter (thin tube) or a needle.
Intraperitoneal (IP): The drugs discharged at the peritoneal cavity, which covers the body organs like the liver, stomach, intestines, or ovaries.
Intravenous (IV): The anticancer drugs are discharged goes directly into a vein.
Topical: The drugs are in the form of the cream which is rubbed on the body.
Oral: You have to swallow a pill or liquid which contains the drugs.

What is the Procedure for Chemotherapy Treatment in India?

Before starting the chemotherapy treatment procedure, you and doctor must work out to determine which would be the best type of chemotherapy treatment that you may undertake to treat cancer you are suffering from. Most commonly, chemotherapy treatment is carried out in the form of a pill form or directly into veins by injection or an IV. The location of the treatment will depend on the type of chemotherapy treatment that you will choose. For example, if you will be going for the topical treatment, i.e. rubbing creams or pills on the body, you can give yourself treatments at home. However, most of the other chemotherapy procedures may be generally carried out at a hospital or a cancer treatment centre. The doctor will customize the chemotherapy schedule for you that will depend on the frequency of the chemotherapy treatments. This will be further improvised once the doctor observes if your body is able to handle the aggressive drug treatment, depending on which the frequency of the chemotherapy treatment will be increased or decreased.