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Colorectal Cancer: In Treatment: Chemotherapy

Summary: Chemotherapy

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If you already read about radiation, you will see that much of the content in this document is the same.

Since most of us tend to see things we missed during a single reading, it is recommended that you take the time to

reread familiar sections. Mom was right. It is better to be safe instead of sorry. 

Chemotherapy for colorectal cancer takes place over a period of weeks or months depending on the particular drug or drugs used. Because the drugs travel throughout the body and affect both normal and malignant cells, they are given in courses, with some time allowed between doses for normal cells to repair themselves.

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