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Listen as Dr. Amit Sarma, MD, medical oncologist at Virginia Cancer Specialists, discusses some of the common misconceptions about chemotherapy. The most common misconception is that chemotherapy makes you sick. Chemotherapy is often blamed for making a loved one sicker when undergoing treatment, but in reality, effective chemotherapy actually makes people healthier. It's when chemotherapy is not working and the cancer is resistant and growing that the patient’s health worsens.

It’s important to understand that chemotherapy is there to help patients, and when it’s working, the patient’s health will improve, not get worse.

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