Content Overview
- Overview
- Life During a Continuous FOLFOX Infusion: Do's and Don'ts
- FOLFOX and Work
- Paying For FOLFOX Treatment
- FOLFOX: How Treatment Is Delivered (Infusion, Continuous Infusion)
- FOLFOX and Food
- How Chemotherapy Works
- Ports: Defined, Advantages, Risks, Care Of
- FOLFOX Variations
- FOLFOX Side Effects: What They Are And How To Cope With Them
- The Drugs Which Make Up FOLFOX
- How To Prepare For FOLFOX Infusions
- Implanting A Port
- What Happens During a Continuous FOLFOX Infusion
- What Happens During FOLFOX Infusion At The Treatment Center
- What NOT To Do While On FOLFOX Treatment
- Red Flags to Watch For While Undergoing FOLFOX Treatment
- Living With A Port When Not Being Infused
- Removal of A Port
- Nearing The End Of FOLFOX Treatment
- Recovery From FOLFOX Treatment
- Life After FOLFOX Treatment: Long Term
- Your Health Care Team
- Emotions And Feelings While Undergoing FOLFOX Treatment
- Disability Income From SSDI and/or SSI Or A Private Insurer
- FOLFOX and Sex
- If You Have Advanced Colorectal Cancer
- If Treatment Is Not Working
- FOLFOX Family and Friends
Chemotherapy: FOLFOX
How Chemotherapy Works
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As adults, most of the body's cells spend most of their time in a resting state. They only divide if they need to repair damage. When cells divide they split into two identical new cells. In cancer the cells keep on dividing until there is a mass of cells. This mass of cells becomes a lump called a tumor.
Cancer cells divide much more often than most normal cells.
Chemotherapy flows throughout the body through the bloodstream and damages dividing cells. Cells in the process of dividing are more at risk of being damaged by chemotherapy.
As a general matter, chemotherapy kills the cell by:
- Damaging the part of the control centre inside each cell that makes cells divide, or
- Interrupting the chemical processes involved in cell division.
For an in depth discussion of how chemotherapy works, see the American Cancer Society discusison by clicking here .
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