Adjustments To Chemotherapy

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The biggest and most known disease in the world is cancer and once a person has it, there is no way to make it completely go away. Cancer patients all around the world go through chemotherapy, and although I can’t fix the side effects that it has on people, maybe I can make some adjustments so that it does not feel and look as bad as it is. My grandmother suffers with lymphoma and has to undergo chemo twice a month and I can already see the toll it has taken on her. She has been losing hair very quickly, and is almost completely bald. I want to change it so that the chemotherapy does not ruin the cells that are responsible for hair and nail loss. This would automatically boast a cancer patient's confidence and make them not appear as sick to

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