All Entries in the "Chemotherapy" Category
Chemotherapy Protocol
Chemotherapy protocol is a concept familiar to cancer patients, but it remains totally unknown to people who do not have any direct or indirect contact with the disease. 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 [...]
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? The medication used in chemotherapy is extremely powerful and it destroys all the developing cancer cells, although they affect other body parts too. 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 with a rapid division speed normally encountered with many body functions; the bone [...]
Chemotherapy Drugs
Chemotherapy drugs are pretty numerous and they fall into various categories following such criteria as the way they work, the relationship they establish with other drugs and the chemical structure they have. Most drugs are based on chemicals obtained from plants and this very origin or source leaves room to further classification. And, last but [...]
Chemotherapy Drug
As a disease cancer consists of the uncontrolled malignant cellular growth, the invasion of organs and the 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 [...]
Cancer Chemotherapy
Once a patient is diagnosed with cancer, it is required that the doctor recommend him/her the appropriate types and dosages of cancer chemotherapy drugs. It is highly important that doctors take enough time and display enough patience in talking to the patient suffering from such a serious condition. The doctor-patient relationship is almost as important [...]
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
Cancer patients may have no other choice but to resort to chemotherapy in order to treat their illness. 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 administered to the patient following a surgical intervention as a [...]
Types of Chemotherapy
Do you realize how painful it is to watch someone dear to you ravished by the fight with cancer? And it all has to do with the perception we have of cancer and with the very intense chemotherapy medication administered to patients diagnosed with this malignant disease. All sorts of treatments and therapeutic approaches have [...]
Side Effects of Chemotherapy
By chemotherapy one generally refers to the drug combinations prescribed for the treatment of cancer or tumors. 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 makes the most visible of the side effects of chemotherapy although it is false to [...]
Oral Chemotherapy
Oral chemotherapy refers to the drugs administered orally as part of an extended or comprehensive drug treatment. 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 in as [...]
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 represents a [...]
Chemotherapy Treatment
The chemotherapy treatment relies on chemicals that destroy cells considered ill 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 suffers from is not cancer. [...]
Chemotherapy Side Effects
Together with AIDS, cancer is the lethal threat of the 20th century. 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 during chemotherapy is very difficult but reading about [...]