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Chemotherapy

If your cancer has spread outside your prostate to other places like your bones, your doctor may suggest chemotherapy after hormone therapy has been used and no longer works.

Chemotherapy uses drugs in the form of pills or injections that kill any cells in your body that are dividing quickly. Cancer cells divide rapidly. However, so do some other healthy cells, like those in your mouth, your stomach, your intestines, your bones, and your hair. Therefore, the drugs can also kill healthy cells in those places.

Chemotherapy can cause mouth sores, tiredness, weakness, hair loss, diarrhea, and an upset stomach. Most cases of prostate cancer do not respond to chemotherapy, but this is under investigation.