Chemotherapy regimens

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…

(Field et al., 2015). There are few treatments available for newly diagnosed patients; the most common is surgical removal of the tumor followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Based on multiple studies, there has been no reliable evidence that chemotherapy has any benefit to the patients’ health because most of the chemotherapy drugs are unable to cross the blood-brain barrier (Field et al., 2015; Shevtsov et al., 2014). The prognosis remains poor with most patients dying within 1 year after…

Summary The overall goal of this experiment was to determine if there is a connection between cyclin D1 amplification and breast cancer therapy resistance. This experiment was motivated by the statistic of forty percent of endocrine therapy breast cancer patients being resistant to the treatment. In some research, it has been thought that the presence of cyclin D1 causes resistance to tamoxifen therapy, while others do not think cyclin D1 is relevant to the efficacy of the treatment. This…

Brachytherapy is an advanced cancer treatment where radioactive seeds or sources are placed in or near the tumour. This gives a high radiation dose to the tumour while reducing the radiation exposure in the surrounding healthy tissues. History of the technology: The term 'brachytherapy' is derived from the Greek word for ‘short,’ (brachy) which refers to the, “distance between the therapeutic agent and the target lesion.” Commonly used to treat accessible tumours with radium New sources,…

Cancer mental side effect Most people usually think that cancer patient suffer from physical effects from cancer but they also suffer from mental stress . “Mental illness leaves a huge legacy not just for the person that's suffering it but those around them” (Anthony). This quote talks about how not only cancer patients grieve and suffer mental illness but also the people that are supporting them suffer. The mental side effects of cancer impact not only patient but also their family and…

Marijuana’s serves as an anecdote for many ailments that may not otherwise be able to be treated. Specifically, cases wherein the patient is diagnosed with cancer, HIV/AIDS, or and even stomach problems, leave patients with limited options in terms of immediate help in alleviating their excruciating pain. While the traditional treatment of taking pills is effective, some patients experience a difficult time holding the pill in their stomach so that it may begin to take effect (due to vomiting).…

Medical Marijuana “To use or not to use?”--that is the real question at hand. Medicinal marijuana can be used for healing processes but can also have some side effects. Marijuana recipients can abuse the product and make it, as the article says, a “wider distribution”. (“Pros and Cons: Should Marijuana Be Legalized for Medical Purposes?” 1) Medical Marijuana has many purposes such as physical, psychological, and industrial benefits, but the product does have downfalls as well. The pros of…

Some advances include improved drug combinations, administration of anti-nausea medications during and after chemotherapy to reduce sickness and side effects, and chemotherapy pre-surgery to shrink a tumor or chemotherapy post-surgery to prevent recurrence of tumor (Evolution of Cancer Treatment). Another commonly administered treatment for cancer is radiation therapy. Radiation therapy is the use of high-beamed…

out which stage of breast cancer a patient has is most effective when deciding which treatment is the right one. The medical field has seen drastic improvements made to breast cancer treatments in the past years. Getting surgery, a mastectomy, chemotherapy, or radiation are the main cures given to patients today. One would usually receive two of these together in best hopes of not having the disease return in the future. In addition to these treatments the world has sadly become familiar with,…

assigned. One of the reasons I do not agree is because marijuana clearly have medical usage as mentioned earlier. Some of those medical uses include marijuana is used medically to treat muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis, nausea from cancer chemotherapy, poor appetite and weight loss caused by chronic illness, such as HIV, or nerve pain, seizure disorders, Crohn 's disease, and many more. In addition, I don’t agree with the present level of control because marijuana should clearly not…