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Toxicity complications from chemotherapy in lung cancer treatment

1st Indian Cancer Congress

Published: 5 Dec 2013

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Dr G.S. Bhattacharyya - FORTIS Hospitals, Kolkata, India

When chemotherapy is used to treat a specific cancer, both cancer and normal cells are damaged in the course of treatment. Dr G.S. Bhattacharyya talks to ecancer about how oncologists need to carefully balance treatment and monitoring toxicity levels of the patient.

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