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Chemotherapy is a drug treatment for the use of treating cancer. These drugs often are called "anticancer" drugs. Chemotherapy is usually used in addition to surgery, and is used to help shrink a tumor before surgery or radiation therapy.

5 Great Resources on Chemotherapy

• Wikipedia: Chemotherapy
• Chemotherapy.com: Chemotherapy
• Cancer Treatment Centers of America: Chemotherapy
• National Cancer Institute: Questions and Answers About Chemotherapy
• American Cancer Society: Chemotherapy: What It Is, How It Works

What is Chemotherapy?

• Yahoo Health: What is Chemotherapy? Video
• Cancer Research UK: What is Chemotherapy?
• CancerNet.co.uk: Chemotherapy
• TheBreastCareSite: What is Chemotherapy?
• UAB Health System: What is Chemotherapy?

What Are The Uses for Chemotherapy?

• Doctors Lounge: Chemotherapy
• The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center: Chemotherapy
• University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenbaum Cancer Center: Chemotherapy
• Joe Arrington Cancer Treatment and Research Center: Understanding Chemotherapy
• Mayo Clinic: Chemotherapy: Drug Treatment Uses Chemicals to Kill Cancer Cells

What Are The Side Effects, Interactions and Precautions for Chemotherapy?

• PubMed: Chemotherapy Interactions
• HealthAtoZ: Managing Side Effects of Chemotherapy
• ChemoCare.com: Managing Chemotherapy Side Effects
• Cancer Research UK: General Side Effects of Chemotherapy Drugs
• Childrens Cancer Center: Precautions with Chemotherapy

What are the Alternatives to Chemotherapy?

• Healthwise (via PeaceHealth): Chemotherapy - Alternative Medicine
• The Cancer Cure Foundation: What is Alternative Therapy?
• Alternative Cancer Treatment Center of Southern California: There May Be a More Desirable Way to Treat Your Cancer Than With Conventional Chemotherapy

What are the Holistic Alternatives to Chemotherapy?

• Healing Cancer Naturally: Alternative Cancer Therapy
• Life Therapies: Alternative Cancer Therapies
• Mayo Clinic: Marijuana As Medicine: Consider the Pros and Cons

Wisdom, Personal Experiences and Blogs about Chemotherapy

• The Cancer Cure Foundation: Actual Cases of Cancer Victors
• CBC News: Alberta Scientists Test Chemotherapy Alternative
• News Target: Non-Patented Chemotherapy Alternative Drug May Provide Cheap Chemical Cure for Cancer
• Cancer Guide: Inspirational Patient Stories
• Yahoo Health: Cancer & Chemotherapy: Personal Stories
• The Cancer Blog: The Cancer Blog
• RevolutionHealth: Chemotherapy and Colorectal Cancer Blog
• My Breast Cancer Blog: Funny How Chemo Does That
• The Cancer Blogs: Love and Chemotherapy

Clinical Trials for Chemotherapy

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Clinical Trials for Chemotherapy
• Centerwatch: Clinical Trials for Chemotherapy

Message Boards, Chat and Discussions about Chemotherapy

• CancerCompass: Chemotherapy Message Board Discussions
• ChemoCare.com: Chemotherapy and the Cancer Process Message Board
• Daily Mail: Live Chat For Breast Cancer!
• National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc.: Discussion Chemotherapy

Controversy and Lawsuits about Chemotherapy

• Science American Association for the Advancement of Science: The Continuing Breast Cancer Controversy
• PubMed: Controversy Over High-Dose Chemotherapy
• Bladder Cancer WebCafe: Controversy about Neoadjuvant (pre-op) Chemotherapy Protocol
• Center for Justice and Democracy: Prescription Verification - Patient Prescribed Incorrect Chemotherapy Dosage
• Optimal Diet: Abuse of Chemotherapy

Scientific and Medical Journal Articles on Chemotherapy

• Oxford Journals: Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
• PubMed: Medical Journal Articles on Chemotherapy
• JAMA: Medical Journal Articles on Chemotherapy
• Journal of Clinical Oncology: Discussions Regarding Reproductive Health for Young Women With Breast Cancer Undergoing Chemotherapy

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