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 refers to the treatment of a disease by means of chemicals meant to kill cells, typically cells of micro-organisms or cancer. This treatment works by attacking and killing cells which divide very quickly as cancer cells do. Unfortunately, chemotherapy damages cells with a rapid division speed which is normal for the body functions; the [...]
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 refers to the treatment applied to patients who suffer from breast cancer. 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 drug [...]
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 remedies and therapeutic approaches have [...]
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 is one of the side effects of chemotherapy although it is [...]
Oral Chemotherapy
Oral chemotherapy refers to the drugs administered orally as part of an extended or comprehensive drug treatment. There are multiple ways of applying the principles of chemotherapy for the treatment of various health conditions. Nowadays, due to progress in cancer treatments and research, patients benefit from many different types of chemotherapy that can be taken [...]
Melanoma Chemotherapy
A type of skin cancer, melanoma is diagnosed after the appearance of all sorts of dark spots on the epidermis. 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 first option [...]
Chemotherapy Treatment
The chemotherapy treatment consist of the administration of chemicals that destroy cells considered ill especially those of micro-organism origin or specific to cancer. 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 applied even if the condition [...]
Chemotherapy Side Effects
Cancer is the twentieth century greatest enemy of all besides AIDS. Very many people lose their beloved ones to this illness and very many are still struggling with chemotherapy treatment as it is followed by the people they love. Understanding what cancer patients go through while following chemotherapy is very difficult but reading about it [...]