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
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? 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 [...]
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 that have a rapid division process which is normal for the body functions; [...]
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. Don’t be surprised to find a [...]
Chemotherapy Drug
Cancer refers to the uncontrolled growth of cells combined with malignant behavior invasion and metastasis. The cause for this disease is believed to be the interaction of environmental toxins and the genetic susceptibility. Basically, the principle that makes a chemotherapy drug functional is the impairment of the cellular division of tissues with a fast [...]
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. Health care providers should not overlook the importance of treatment transparency and the necessity for good communication with the person under medication. The doctor-patient relationship is almost as important nowadays as [...]
Breast Chemotherapy
Breast chemotherapy refers to the treatment applied to patients who suffer from breast cancer. The treatment aims at reducing the tumor size and at killing the cells with a rapid multiplication rate. Various kinds of breast chemotherapy can be identified depending on the drug combination chosen by the doctor. That is why it is highly [...]
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 administered to the patient following a surgical intervention as a means to prevent [...]
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.
Challenges [...]
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
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, oral chemotherapy is not the only option cancer patients have, as science has come up with other ways of medicine [...]
Melanoma Chemotherapy
A type of skin cancer, melanoma is diagnosed after the appearance of all sorts of dark spots on the epidermis. In order to treat melanoma, diagnostic tests must first be completed and then the cancer team will be able to recommend one or maybe more treatment options. Melanoma chemotherapy represents a first option to fight [...]
Chemotherapy Treatment
The chemotherapy treatment relies on chemicals that attack cells with a malevolent behavior 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 the [...]
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 [...]