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Can Chemotherapy Be Done Without Cancer?

My friends mother is 80 years old. She was diagnosed with breast cancer but when they did surgury they could not find anything. She is diabetic with high blood pressure an very slow on healing... my question is, this doctor wants her to take chemo bc he says she has a gene that causes cancer, it runs in her family. she is too old to take chemo, for no reason
Fri, 25 May 2018
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

Chemotherapy is given to kill cancer cells in the cancer mass.

If there is no cancer, how can a doctor give chemotherapy to your friend mother.

Presence of cancerous gene is a risk factor for cancer. But chemotherapy is not given for cancerous gene.

Don't worry about it.

Hope my answer will help you.

Thank you!
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Can Chemotherapy Be Done Without Cancer?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. Chemotherapy is given to kill cancer cells in the cancer mass. If there is no cancer, how can a doctor give chemotherapy to your friend mother. Presence of cancerous gene is a risk factor for cancer. But chemotherapy is not given for cancerous gene. Don t worry about it. Hope my answer will help you. Thank you!