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Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy uses cancer-fighting medicines that travel through your body to find and destroy cancer cells, wherever they may be. Our team tailors every plan to you and delivers it in our own infusion centers, close to home.
What it is
Medicine that works throughout the body
Chemotherapy is any treatment that uses drugs to kill cancer cells. Surgery and radiation therapy treat one specific area. Chemotherapy drugs circulate in the blood, so they can reach cancer cells that may have spread far from where the cancer started. That's why chemotherapy is called a systemic treatment.
Built around you
One drug or a combination
Your treatment may use a single drug or a combination of drugs that work together. Your physician chooses the drugs, the dose and the schedule based on your type of cancer, your overall health and your goals for treatment.
How it's given
Ways to Receive Chemotherapy
How you receive chemotherapy depends on the drugs in your plan. Your care team will explain exactly what to expect before you begin.
Through a vein
Given by IV infusion, often in our own infusion centers, where our nurses care for you throughout each treatment.
Into a body cavity
Some drugs are injected directly into an area of the body, such as the abdomen, to treat cancer where it is located.
By mouth
Some chemotherapy comes as a pill you take at home, with our team checking in and monitoring your progress.
During treatment, many of our patients continue to
- Work
- Travel
- Enjoy everyday life
Living well during treatment
Keep Doing What Matters to You
More than half of all people diagnosed with cancer receive chemotherapy. For millions whose cancers respond well, treatment works, and they go on to enjoy full, productive lives.
Many side effects once linked to chemotherapy can now be prevented or well controlled, and our team is here to support you every step of the way.
Close to home
Treatment with Familiar Faces
We're one of the only independently owned cancer centers with our own infusion centers, right here in Covington and Hammond. That means you receive treatment close to home, cared for by the people who know your story, your plan and your name.