As the Princess of Wales reveals cancer was found during her abdominal surgery in January, experts explain what preventative chemotherapy is, how it works and when it's used. What is preventative chemotherapy? Also known as adjuvant therapy, preventative chemotherapy is often used after surgery to reduce the chance of cancer coming back and spreading.
'Chemotherapy is one such type of treatment that uses drugs which particularly act on rapidly dividing cells, for example, cancer cells, and kills such cells.' Does it work better on certain groups? Andrew Beggs, MRC Senior Clinical Fellow and Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, University of Birmingham, describes preventative chemo as 'a bit like mopping a floor with bleach when you've spilt something on it, chemotherapy kills any spilt cells'.
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