Types

• Lung cancer may require many aggressive treatments. Chemotherapy is often used in combination with surgery and radiation to battle the disease.
  
  

Function

• Chemotherapy targets the cancer and kills it, but may also affect the body by making patients very ill.
  
  

Identification

• Chemotheray treatments often take weeks or months, but there is given in rounds with breaks so patients can recover.
  
  

Considerations

• Chemotherapy is often given intravenously, by injection or by mouth. Often a combination of drugs are given.
  
  

Warning

• Chemotherapy can have bad side effects such as nausea, vomiting, hair loss, and sores in the mouth.