Breast cancer chemotherapy

Breast cancer is when some of the cells in a person's breast start to grow too much and can become a dangerous health problem. Chemotherapy is one way that doctors can try to help a person get better if they have breast cancer.

Chemotherapy is like medicine that is really strong and powerful. It can help stop the cancer from growing and maybe even kill it. A person has to get the medicine put into their body through a tube in their arm or sometimes a special little disk under their skin.

The chemotherapy medicine can make a person feel really tired, sick to their stomach, and maybe even lose their hair. This is because the medicine is also killing healthy cells in their body along with the cancer cells. But the doctors know how much medicine is safe to give a person to try to help them as much as possible.

Some people have to get the medicine a lot of times, every few weeks for a few months or even for a whole year. But the goal is always to try to help the person get better and make sure no more cancer can grow in their body.