Chemotherapy - A Prostate Cancer Therapy
As the term suggests, chemotherapy is done using chemicals to kill rapidly dividing
cells. At some point, one of the disadvantages of chemotherapy is that it also kills normal
cells that divide rapidly. Since most cancer cells are really fast in splitting and dividing
compared with the normal cells, most chemicals used for this type of therapy attack the
cancer cells first.
Those drugs used for chemotherapy treatment work by impairing and misaligning
cell division. And the targets are the fast-dividing cells. Eventually, as chemical
compounds work to attack fast-growing cells, tumor cells which are prone to cell division
is being damaged faster than the regular cells, thus allowing the impacted part to have
less constraints.
Are we aware that chemicals used for the chemotherapy process effectively reduce
younger tumors than malignant one? It is said that it is easier to cure a cancer if the roots
are just new, and it is not in an advance state of growth. With chemotherapy, it triggers
the division of tumor cells while leaving them with less ability to reproduce and create
harmful compounds.
At the same time, as the chemotherapy process progresses, it totally ceases the
division of the cells, thus preventing the cancer cells to spread out. For a prostate patient
scenario, it is easier to cure the disease if the patient is in T1 and T2 of the disease. Since
during these stages, the roots are just within the prostate gland, and the cancer cells are
still intact to it. It did not spread out yet.
With the chemotherapy process, it will allow the chemical components of the drugs to
attack the cancer cells within the prostate gland alone to prevent division and secretion of
harmful elements damaging the good cells. As a result, the spread of the cancer cells will
be stopped, since the cell division will be halted using the chemical compounds present
on those drugs.
However, there are certain limitations on the chemotherapeutic process. It is a fact
that the center core of the tumo