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. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, it is a list of procedures and characteristics that describe the aim, the means, the potential risks and complications [...]
Chemotherapy Patients
The disease of the 20th century as it is often called, cancer has not been given a viable solution or treatment not even 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 [...]
Chemotherapy Hair Loss
One of the most frequent side effect of cancer treatments is chemotherapy hair loss. 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 [...]
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 destroys other cells with a rapid division speed normally encountered with many body functions; the [...]
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. The origin of most drugs is in herbal extracts that are afterwards processed and combined in laboratories. And, last but not least, one [...]
Chemotherapy Drug
As a disease cancer consists of the uncontrolled malignant cellular growth, the invasion of organs and the metastasis. The cause for this disease is believed to be the interaction of environmental toxins and the genetic susceptibility. Basically, the chemotherapy drugs functioning principle is to impair cell division (mitosis), targeting rapidly-dividing cells. The damage they produce [...]
Cancer Chemotherapy
The administration of cancer chemotherapy drugs becomes imminent and almost inevitable once a patient is diagnosed with cancer. 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 nowadays as the suggested cancer chemotherapy [...]
Breast Chemotherapy
Breast chemotherapy is the cancer treatment used when the disease has attacked the mammary glands. The treatment aims at reducing the tumor size and at killing the cells with a rapid multiplication rate. Breast chemotherapy can be of very many kinds depending on the combination of drugs that the doctor has selected for you. Correct [...]
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 is an additional treatment administered to the patient following a surgical intervention as a [...]
Types of Chemotherapy
Have you ever imagined what it’s like for someone close to you to suffer from 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 types of chemotherapy.
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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. Many side effects of chemotherapy treatments are permanently reported by people undergoing a chemical intervention.
Hair loss or alopecia makes the most visible of the side effects of chemotherapy although [...]
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, oral chemotherapy is not the only option cancer patients have, as science has come up with other ways of medicine administration adequate [...]
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 relies on chemicals that destroy cells considered ill especially those that are cancerous or of micro-organism origin. In case of cancer, the two forms that are most often referred to are leukemia and lymphoma. There are also some instances when the chemotherapy treatment is preferred even if the diagnosis 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 while following chemotherapy is very difficult but reading [...]