Chemotherapy regimens

There’s a wide range of ways that cancer can affect a patient’s life. Everyone’s experience is completely different due to the wide variety of side effects and fatigue cancer can cause. According to the American cancer society you feel more tired than usual during your everyday life due to the lack of sleep from all the cancer fatigue. Some people describe it as feeling weak, drained, and washed out. The fatigue can change from day to day in how much it bothers you and how severe it is. While…

Skin Cancer Introduction The skin does its best on protecting against the heat, injury and infection. Skin helps control body temperature and will store water and fat. Skin Cancer is the abnormal growth of skin cells that usually develops on skin that is exposed to the sun. Typically it can be found on areas such as the scalp, face, lips, ears, neck, chest, arms, hands, and on legs in women (“http://www.skincancer.org”). Less often, this common form of cancer can also occur on areas of your…

Brand Name: Creon Generic Name: Pancrelipase FDA Approval Information: The FDA approved Creon on May 1, 2009 for the treatment of pancreatic insufficiency in patients with cystic fibrosis or other diseases. A REMS program was designed for the drug at the request of the FDA, due to the potential risk of developing fibrosing colonopathy with the higher doses of the pancreatic enzymes.1 Pharmacology: Creon’s mechanism of action is very simple. It’s composed of porcine pancreatic glands: lipase,…

My interviewee is my mother, Reinelda. She is 52 years old Filipino-American woman, currently living a healthy and active life with a balanced diet and daily yoga lessons. This was not always the case. About four years ago, she was diagnosed with uterine (endometrial) polyps. Prior to the diagnosis, she experienced constant bloating, unusually heavy menstrual periods, and bleeding between menstrual cycles. She learned that she had uterine polyps during an annual Pap smear. After describing the…

Chlorotoxin comes from a scorpion called Leiurus quinquestriatus. This scorpion can be found in Israel. Chlorotoxin is comprised of 36 amino acids, which make up a small peptide. This polypeptide contains four disulfide bonds and eight cystines. But chlorotoxin has a secondary form that is made up of 3 beta sheets and an alpha helix. Many have been studying the effects that chlorotoxin has on cancer cells. Some of the ingredients that make up the scorpion venom are histamine, serotonin,…

Personally, I would have surgery done for my treatment. Even though I am a male, if my future wife ends up with breast cancer I would rather have her do surgery than any other type of treatments. I really don’t want to go through chemotherapy or have someone in my family go through that. Knocking on wood, but I have been lucky that cancer has not been a big factor in my family. I believe this is the best way because there is two options when it comes having surgery. Those two options are…

Under Chemotherapy Desensitization Cancer itself is a difficult situation. The cure for cancer hasn’t still been discovered. It attacks the body in various parts and unfamiliar ways. Not only that it affects the person that has cancer, it also affects the people that surround that person. Some people have survived cancer and this is because there are treatments being developed to help cancer patients in battling their illness. The article, “Nursing Care of Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy…

HLA proteins. These antigens are inherited from parents meaning that siblings are the most likely to have the same antigens as the person with SCD. The process involves stem cells being taken from the donor, and the recipient being treated with chemotherapy or radiation therapy that destroys or significantly reduces their own bone marrow stem cells. The donor stem cells are injected into the recipient, and these cells will settle in the bone marrow, gradually replacing the original cells of…

standard treatment for patients with advanced ovarian cancer is maximal surgical cytoreduction (total abdominal hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy and omentectomy) followed by systemic platinum-based chemotherapy and, actually, is reasonable to expect a 5-year survival for 10-30% of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer at stage III or IV (34). The concept of primary debulking surgery is to diminish the residual tumor burden to a point at which…

07. Von Hippel-Lindau ( VHL ). VHL is said to affect one in every 35,000 people. It is a very rare genetic condition that is often characterized by the growth of numerous tumors in different parts of the body. It is an inherited disorder causing benign and malignant tumors to develop in the central nervous system and viscera. These tumors can start to grow in the retina, the brain, and in the spinal cord. Tumors also arise in the pancreas, epididymis, and the inner ear. If left untreated, this…