All Entries in the "Chemotherapy" Category
Chemotherapy Protocol
Most cancer patients that have started undergoing chemotherapy would most likely be able to speak about their chemotherapy protocol and would know what that is. The chemotherapy protocol consists of all the procedures and medicine specificity, the expected results, the potential threats and the side effects related to the medication. This protocol is to be [...]
Chemotherapy Patients
Cancer is a disease that gains more and more of the ground we used to own in health matters especially now, in the 21st century. As a result, it is highly important that not only chemotherapy patients understand the risks and side effects of treatments but also those who are healthy and may or may [...]
Chemotherapy Hair Loss
Chemotherapy hair loss is one of the numerous effects of this cancer treatment. Why does one lose hair during chemotherapy? Well, the drugs used in this type of cancer treatment are very strong, therefore very efficient in attacking the rapidly developing cancer cells. These medicines also attack other cells in the body that have a [...]
Chemotherapy Effects
Chemotherapy as the drug-based cancer treatment involves the elimination of the disease by stopping cancer cells from division. Cancer cells divide at an accelerated rate and therefore need to be attacked powerfully in order to stop the invasion. Unfortunately, chemotherapy damages cells that have a rapid division process which is normal for the body functions; [...]
Chemotherapy Drugs
The pharmaceutical industry has come up with lots of chemotherapy drugs classified according to the chemical structure, the working principle and the possible associations with other medication. Most drugs are based on chemicals obtained from plants and this very origin or source leaves room to further classification. Don’t be surprised to find a drug classified [...]
Chemotherapy Drug
Cancer refers to the uncontrolled growth of cells combined with malignant behavior invasion and metastasis. It seams that the cause of the condition is a combination of genetic predisposition and the exposure to some environmental toxins. Basically, the chemotherapy drugs functioning principle is to impair cell division (mitosis), targeting rapidly-dividing cells. The damage they [...]
Cancer Chemotherapy
The administration of cancer chemotherapy drugs becomes imminent and almost inevitable once a patient is diagnosed with cancer. Health care providers should not overlook the importance of treatment transparency and the necessity for good communication with the person under medication. The importance of cancer chemotherapy is equal with that of the doctor-patient relationship, as the [...]
Breast Chemotherapy
Breast chemotherapy is the cancer treatment used when the disease has attacked the mammary glands. Its purpose is to kill or to reduce in size the tumor consisting of cells that multiply very quickly compared to the normal rate of multiplication of normal cells. Various kinds of breast chemotherapy can be identified depending on the [...]
Adjuvant Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is often the only choice cancer sufferers have to regain a next-to-normal health condition. In oncology, adjuvant chemotherapy will have quite a special role for the patient because it is related to other cancer treatments. Adjuvant chemotherapy represents an additional treatment given to the patient after surgery to help prevent any cancerous cells that [...]
Types of Chemotherapy
Do you realize how painful it is to watch someone dear to you ravished by the fight with cancer? The perception we have over tumor behavior and chemotherapy approaches influences our way of perceiving this cruel reality. All sorts of treatments and therapeutic approaches are available, but in general lines, it is all reduced to [...]
Side Effects of Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is a sort of treatment based on various combinations of drugs that are meant to reduce the growth of cancerous cells within a patients body. But while following this treatment or so-called therapy, the patient may have to deal with several side effects of chemotherapy.
Hair loss or alopecia is one of the side effects [...]
Oral Chemotherapy
What is oral chemotherapy? The term refers to the way of administering chemotherapy, namely taking chemo drugs by mouth. Chemotherapy is medicine used in treating cancer and the ways to apply it are multiple. Nowadays, due to progress in cancer treatments and research, patients benefit from many different types of chemotherapy that can be taken [...]
Melanoma Chemotherapy
Melanoma is a type of cancer that affects the skin and is recognized by the dark spots that appear on the dermis. These skin surface formations do not represent the only symptoms of the disease, more conclusive tests are performed before passing the initial cancer diagnosis and establishing a potential treatment. Melanoma chemotherapy is one [...]
Chemotherapy Treatment
The chemotherapy treatment consist of the administration of chemicals that attack cells with a malevolent behavior especially those that are cancerous or of micro-organism origin. In case of cancer, lymphoma and leukemia represent the most commonly referred to. There are also some instances when the chemotherapy treatment is applied even if the condition the patient [...]
Chemotherapy Side Effects
Cancer is the twentieth century greatest enemy of all besides AIDS. Lots of people have become direct or indirect victims to this illness, either by suffering from the condition or by having someone dear to them devastated by tumor development. Knowing what cancer patients go through while following chemotherapy is very difficult but reading about [...]