Chemotherapy regimens

We all hate cancer. Why? Because it takes so many precious lives from us. According to statistics, on average, cancer affects more than 12.7 million people a year. My mom happened to be one of those millions of people and maybe if she would’ve taken an aspirin everyday, she would still be here. They say that there is not a cure for cancer but there is ways to prevent or even help it. Taking an aspirin a day can lower yours or a loved one's chances of getting cancer or any other deadly illnesses.…

Medical marijuana has been proven to help with many chronic illnesses and diseases. To start, according to the Drug Policy Alliance, marijuana has shown to treat symptoms of conditions, including cancer, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, alzheimer's disease, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), epilepsy, crohn disease, and glaucoma, and is often an effective alternative to narcotic to painkillers (n.pag). All of the conditions listed above have terrible symptoms, and medical marijuana is a better…

tremendously. I remember wondering how did this happen and I never thought I would be in this position. I was told that chemotherapy was my only option. I was told that there were cells that were going to metastasize if I did not do chemotherapy. After a couple days, I could absorb the idea of possibly having this cancer but still could not wrap my head around the idea of chemotherapy being my only option. For some reason, it just did not make sense to me. They had taken x-rays and my blood as…

You get one go at life. That’s one chance to reach your goals and make your mark on the world. Everyone’s life should be enjoyed, however children with cancer don’t have enough time to reach their goals because of its small survival rate. Cancer is a devastating disease that effects more than the child fighting it, causing financial instability and sadness. Something needs to be done about it. The Make a Wish Foundation and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital are the only hope cancer patients…

My intimate relationship with cancer has directly shaped my academic, professional, and personal aspirations. When I was six years old, I lost my 63-year-old grandmother to breast cancer, despite her relentless 10-year fight against the disease. At age 11, my grandfather, who had already overcome testicular cancer earlier in life, passed away from non-small cell lung cancer that riddled his body after only three weeks. Then, when I was 15, I lost my 41-year-old aunt to colon cancer. Not only do…

We are always hearing about the medical benefits of cannabis and recently, how it can even kill cancer cells. But, can marijuana treat other conditions and ailments? The answer is yes, and the list includes health issues that many people face on a daily basis. However, there are many strains that aid in different ways by causing a different effect on the body. For example, you may notice that a certain strain causes more of a sleepy response, while another may cause you to be more alert. In a…

he story of the movie starts with Dr. Vivian. He was bearing in front of an audience in a doctor's facility outfit unmistakably experiencing the weakening impacts of different chemotherapy and radiation medicines. The opening is really stunning; as Bearing begins saying that she is in stage four, the last stage, of metastatic ovarian disease. The gathering of people, through flashbacks, gets the chance to see her consent to another exploratory treatment and watch how she is influenced. Mind is…

The plot of the movie Wit, based on a screenplay by Margarete Edson, revolves around a woman dying of ovarian cancer in an academic medical center. The protagonist, Vivian Bearing, a professor of English literature and expert on the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, struggles to come to grips with her diagnosis. She has built her life around the academic world of literary criticism and left little room for experiencing and showing love. Throughout the movie, viewers are able to follow her from the…

Chemotherapy: Cancers Poison Treatment If a doctor walked up to you and said: I am going to treat what is making you sick with “poison” you would think they are crazy! Chemotherapy, a treatment for cancer, is a poison called nitrogen mustard (mustard gas) used during World War II. Paul Ehrlich the father of chemotherapy found that people exposed to the gas had lower White Blood Cell counts than people exposed to the poison (Tharu, 2014, paras. 3). This was the birth of chemotherapy as a therapy…

Nowadays, medical marijuana is recommended by many doctors or health experts to their patients who are suffering from various health problems like seizure disorders, poor appetite, weight loss caused by HIV or nerve pain, nausea from cancer chemotherapy, muscle spasms, etc. Apart from its medical use, marijuana can be used to manufacture various things which include ropes, oils, clothes, soaps and medicines. It is so because, marijuana gives a useful substance ‘cannabis’. But do you know that…