Best Doctors for Chemotherapy Treatment in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad

Chemotherapy is used to treat various types of cancer by completely destroying the cancer cells or by limiting its ability to multiply and spread. The most common route for chemotherapy is via an intravenous line. It can also be given as tablets and injections in some cases. Once it is established that you are a candidate for this form of cancer treatment, certain blood tests are performed to ensure that there are adequate number of normal and healthy cells in the body following that normal physiology is checked with a pulse and blood pressure check. An intravenous or IV catheter is inserted into the arm. This is the route to introduce chemicals into the blood stream. Fluorouracil, carboplatin and dacarbazine are some of the most commonly given drugs via an IV route. Some of these drugs kill the multiplying cells by breaking the cell's control centre resulting in its death eventually. While others come in the way of the chemical processes involved in cell proliferation.