Induction Chemotherapy

When it comes to chemotherapy, you should know as much as you can. What are the drugs meant to be doing, what mixture of drugs will be used, what are the drug companies making on these drugs?

What types of chemotherapy treatments are available? There is a process that is called induction chemotherapy. Below is some information about the induction process and why they would want to use it.

The induction method is often used before they use the more aggressive (extremely poisonous) forms of treatment. This is a way of testing different drugs on “on You” to see how “your” body responds. This is because they don’t really know what treatment will work and are basically using you as a “lab rat” and ruling them out one at a time.

By using the induction method, they can make adjustments not only on the mixture, but the dosage amounts. They are able to observe how you react physically in side effects and how much you can be given without causing too much pain and damage.

They also use this method to prepare your body for therapies in the future. They tell you that there is a chance that the tumor may reduce in size and limiting the spread of malignant cells. They also tell you that this will help you to regain some strength, helping you to deal with the further complications for the more toxic treatments in the future.

And the induction chemotherapy method is used to help them determine the right dosage for the long-term method. They “hope” that this will be a means of slowing and maybe stopping the cancer from progressing. And hopes that during this time as well, you become stronger and can prepare for another long series of higher-level chemotherapy treatments. This is not always (or never) the best choice, but the physician is who will be the one to make this decision, shouldn’t it be you?