An Analysis of Chemotherapy's Role in Infection Treatment: Report

This report examines the role of chemotherapy as a treatment for various infections, primarily focusing on its application in cancer treatment. It details the classification and administration of chemotherapy drugs, emphasizing their ability to target and destroy tumor cells. The report discusses the importance of healthcare professionals' research in establishing safe protocols for drug administration, considering factors such as patient age, infection stage, and previous treatments. It highlights the use of chemotherapy as both a primary and secondary treatment, often following surgery or radiotherapy. The report also addresses the side effects of chemotherapy, such as nausea, vomiting, and hair loss, due to the drugs' impact on both cancerous and normal, fast-growing cells. Finally, it outlines different methods of drug administration, including oral intake, polymer wafers, and intravenous injections, and emphasizes the factors healthcare professionals consider when determining the appropriate treatment plan.

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Role of Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Infection
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Chemotherapy is one of the many treatment techniques which is used to treat infections
such as cancer. Chemotherapy involves the use of drugs which are used to treat the tumors in the
patient’s body. Chemotherapy drugs are categorized depending on their capability to kill the
tumor cells in the body. These drugs are also administered depending on various factors such as
age and the stage of the infection (Breugom et al., 2015). Healthcare professionals have to
research so that they can set protocols which have to be followed when treating infection through
chemotherapy. This is performed to ensure that safe medication is administered to the patient.
Chemotherapy is treatment technique used to treat infections such as cancer tumors.
Chemotherapy is considered a secondary treatment when there is no other option, but it can also
be regarded as the primary treatment for infections like cancer. Chemotherapy is usually used to
a patient after they undergo surgery or radiotherapy treatments so that it can clean up the
leftovers of tumor cells which could not have been detected and removed from the body during
the primary treatment. With the use of chemotherapy drugs, it easy to cure fasts growing cells
which forms a mass called a tumor (Roepman et al., 2014). Chemotherapy drugs can be
administered to a patient in a mixture, or just simply a single drug is supplied to the patient. Just
like any other cell, tumor cells are found in various stages, and the drugs have to be administered
depending on the stage of the tumor cells.
Some chemotherapy drugs are non-specific which means healthcare professionals can use
them to treat cancer tumors at any stage. Others are specifics, and they can only be used to treat a
particular stage of the cancer tumors (Beer et al., 2014). Both specific and non-specific drugs
perform the same role of destroying cancerous cells so that they do not get the ability to divide
and grow and eventually kills them. This prevents the tumor from growing and spreading to
other parts of the body. The role of chemotherapy drugs is to target fast-growing cells which

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includes normal cells as well as cancer cells. Due to this reason, most people experience nausea,
vomiting and they may start losing hair during chemotherapy because the cells which are found
in the digestive tract and hair folic tend to have faster growth. Chemotherapy drugs can be
administered to a patient in various ways. Depending on the type of drug or the severity of the
infection to the patient, the drugs can just be administered orally or through use of disc-shaped
polymer wafers. Chemotherapy drugs can also be injected directly to the veins of the patient with
a needle (Witjes et al., 2014). Healthcare professionals observe various factors before they
administer these drugs to a patient. These factors include the stage in which the infection is at,
the overall well-being of the individual, previous cancer treatment methods used to a particular
patient and the personal preferences which a patient gives to the healthcare professionals. Even
though chemotherapy can be used to kill cancer cells, this technique also has negative impacts on
the body of the patient.

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