• Question: does chemotherapy harm you immune system?

    Asked by BsHhUrPeAkL to Carmen, Daniel, Laura, Noel, Steph on 17 Mar 2015.
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      Noel Carter answered on 17 Mar 2015:


      It can do. Chemotherapy is designed to kill cancer cells. It does that because cancer cells are growing and dividing when they should not be. The other major population of constantly growing cells in the body are blood cells so they can also be effected. Newer drugs are designed to target just the cancer cells

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