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What is systemic chemotherapy

Systemic chemotherapy generally includes oral, intravenous, and intramuscular administration. The drugs are absorbed through the gastrointestinal tract or enter the body through the intravenous route, and the drugs are able to reach all tissues and organs, and there is no significant difference in the concentration of chemotherapeutic drugs in the tumor tissues from that in other tissues.

Systemic chemotherapy is an important part of medical oncology treatment. It should be seen that many tumors are systemic diseases, and the spread or metastasis of tumors is essentially the result of the continuous proliferation of tiny tumor foci planted in different tissues or organs of the body via the bloodstream or lymph, etc., after escaping from the immune monitoring of the body and under the suitable circumstances. Chemotherapy is different from surgery and radiotherapy in that it is a systemic systemic treatment, which can be divided into radical chemotherapy and palliative chemotherapy.

Cytotoxic drugs (CD) used in chemotherapy are drugs that have harmful effects in biological aspects. Since cytotoxic drugs cannot distinguish between normal cells and tumor cells, the growth and reproduction of normal cells are also affected while treating cancer cells. According to the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP), the main characteristics of cytotoxic drugs are as follows: (1) reproductive toxicity; (2) carcinogenicity; (3) teratogenicity or impairment of reproduction; and (4) toxicity to a range of organs at low doses (in experimental animals or in treatment of patients). The American Cancer Society has made statistics on people engaged in oncology chemotherapy, and found that exposure to cytotoxic drugs produces the following adverse reactions: (1) the occurrence of contact dermatitis and eczema; (2) measles and anaphylaxis; (3) nausea and vomiting, dizziness, and liver damage; (4) menstrual disorders, spontaneous abortions, or ectopic pregnancies; (5) children with deformities; and (6) the development of tumors.

More than 50 cytotoxic drugs are commercially available for the treatment of patients with tumors. These chemotherapeutic drugs act as a chemical that treats cancer and may also induce the development of new cancers. The chemotherapeutic drug itself is a cancer-killing agent, which is involved in the process of repairing and adjusting DNA. In this process, it may not always be able to grasp the right direction, and if it goes in the wrong direction, new cellular mutations may be formed, leading to the development of other cancers, and this may even happen a decade or so later. Many varieties of these drugs have been clinically and laboratory proven to be mutagens, carcinogens or teratogens in humans and animals. Published by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the most potent carcinogens are alkylating agents (e.g., cyclophosphamide, nitrogen mustard hydrochloride). The American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP) has found that all drugs that are carcinogenic to animals are carcinogenic to humans, and their secondary tumors are the result of adverse reactions to chemotherapy, leukemia has been observed as the most common case, other secondary malignancies such as bladder cancer and lymphoma have been shown to occur when patients are treated for other tumors usually after solid tumors or primary malignancies. Clinically, it can often be seen that the cause of death of some tumor patients is not caused by the tumor itself, but due to inappropriate and excessive killing western chemotherapy and other treatments, such as liver cancer combined with cirrhosis ascites, jaundice still surgery and chemotherapeutic drug interventions, which led to liver failure and death; lung cancer emphysema lymphatic metastasis, lung lobectomy and then chemotherapy, the patient's respiratory failure is more serious and painful; white blood cells are still too low and still The patient died of bone marrow failure combined with infection and hyperthermia, etc. The more such treatments are done, the more patients will die. The more such treatment is done, the greater the damage to the patient. This also fully proves that over-treatment is the real fatal reason for tumor patients.

From the above information, would you still have chemotherapy?

My opinion: systemic chemotherapy = gas pedal of death