Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is the most common treatment for cancers, including leukemia. It consists of three phases: induction, consolidation, and maintenance. Induction is short and intensive, consolidation lasts a few months, and maintenance lasts around two years. Chemotherapy drugs can be given through various methods, including intravenously, through the muscle, under the skin, orally, and into the cerebrospinal fluid. Common chemotherapy drugs include vincristine, cetarbine, and methotrexate. The treatment targets hormone signaling between tumor cells. Thanks so much for the information. It's super helpful for our project. What's the most common treatment for it? Yeah, let's discuss that. So, chemotherapy is usually the most common treatment for cancers, and that includes leukemia. There are usually three phases to chemotherapy. There's induction, consolidation, which is also called intensification, and maintenance, which is also called post-consolidation. Induction is usually the first phase. It's short, intensive, and usually lasts around a month. Consolidation, which is also intensive, lasts a couple months. Maintenance is usually to keep up what chemotherapy has already been given, and it lasts around two years. Chemotherapy drugs are often given intravenously, through the muscle, under the skin, or orally. And they're also injected into the cerebrospinal fluid, as chemotherapy drugs often have a difficult time reaching the spinal cord and brain. So if you need chemotherapy in those places, oftentimes they're injected into the CDF. Chemotherapy drugs can vary throughout, and they also are usually given in cocktails. Some very common ones include vincristine or liposomal vincristine, cetarbine, and methotrexate. Chemotherapy works to target hormone signaling between malignant tumor cells.