Eastchester Center for Cancer Care | Practice Brochure

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Chemotherapy - Bronx

Depending on the type of cancer and how advanced it is, chemotherapy can be used to cure, control or relieve the symptoms of cancer. It is a cancer treatment that utilizes anticancer drugs to destroy cancer cells. Normal cells grow and die in a controlled way. Cancer cells keep dividing and forming more cells without control.

Anticancer drugs destroy cancer cells by stopping them from growing or multiplying. Healthy cells can also be harmed, but they usually repair themselves after chemotherapy. It can give your fight against cancer the boost it needs.

At Eastchester Center for Cancer Care in the Bronx they don’t just treat the disease. Patients are given the care and support they need to combat the disease in more ways than one. They legalize that they can begin to hope for the better.

Patients can avail of the following services:
Chemotherapy
Radiation therapy
Brachytherapy
Surgery
Imaging Services

Eastchester also provides for the comfort of families and friends. Whether it’s the convenient parking, in- house cancer support network, the comfortable treatment chairs or the individual TVs, all a patient should have on their mind is getting better.

Dr. Fabio Volterra is a consulting physician at Eastchester. You can count on him to give you the treatment you need. Call him today to discuss your chemotherapy.