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When Chemo is Used
Chemotherapy treatments are the best hope for
children with most forms of widely metastasized
cancer. Because chemotherapy drugs are distributed
throughout the body, they are used to treat cancers
of the blood, leukemia, and, if the cancer is
widespread, lymphoma cancers. Chemotherapy is also
used for solid tumours that are assumed to have
spread at the time of diagnosis. By the time most
tumours are discovered, it is likely that a few
cells have travelled elsewhere in the body, carried
away by the bloodstream or in the lymph system.
Using chemo to find and destroy these cells is
called adjuvant or
adjunctive chemotherapy. |
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