I am a cancer survivor and I want to give words of hope and encouragement to anyone who has recently received a cancer diagnosis. Cancer is not a death sentence. When I was told that I had cancer I completely froze. I believe that I went into a state of shock. When I came out of the shock, when the numbness went away and I began to feel and think again, my thoughts turned grimm. I believed, no, I knew that I was going to die from cancer. Cancer kills so many people and is such a horrible disease that, after hearing my diagnosis, I just assumed that my life was ending. Thankfully, after educating myself on cancer and talking with various doctors, specialists and cancer surviviors, I realized that cancer treatments are rapidly improving. There really is hope. Developments in chemotherapy are making the treatment less painful and agonizing and are helping people to beat cancer and go on to live healthy, happy and productive lives.
Chemotherapy fights cancer by using antineoplastic drugs to attack and kill cells in the body that rapidly divide. The negative aspect of chemotherapy treatment is that in addition to harming cancer cells that divide rapidly, the treatment also attacks healthy cells that divide rapidly. continue reading…
