Persuasive Essay On Chemotherapy

Throughout the years illnesses have occurred worldwide, and have including both terminal and temporary in character. Illnesses present in many forms including the flu virus, bacterial infections, allergies, common colds, and cancers. The types of medicine we use to treat these illnesses can be costly and, in some cases, harmful to our bodies. Chemotherapy cancer treatment is destructive to the cancer being treated, but also has nasty side effects including destruction of the body. Additionally, it is expensive to use. Therefor, Chemotherapy should not be used as the first line of defense in cancer treatment. Instead, health care providers should encourage the use of Targeted Therapy. Chemotherapy drugs are made from mustard gas derivatives …show more content…
As people go through chemotherapy treatment, changes occur throughout the body. Cancer patients start to lose their hair because of the chemotherapy. The hair could come out in chunks in a hair brush or just fall out unassisted. Another change to our body with the chemotherapy is that the patients may experience an inability to sleep, with the result that the patient feel fatigued. Patients may develop a feeling of dread, or concern that they will not survive the treatment. Considering all the negative effects from the chemotherapy, health care provider’s should work to provide a different way to treat …show more content…
Specific side effects on a particular patient depend on the type of Targeted Therapy drug they receive (Skin Reactions). Some of these side effects include: pimples, tenderness of the facial skin,sores inside the nose, painful redness around the nails, skin irritation, easily bruised skin, and dry itchy eyes (Skin Reactions). There are ways to treat the side effects using certain medications or lotions. Some of these side effects can cause loss of sleep due to itching (Skin Reactions). Targeted Therapy can save lives because the patients would not be exposed in a whole body fashion to the injected therapeutic drug, which is a poison, into the body, they would only be exposed to the limited treatment of the Targeted Therapy