Chemotherapy regimens

Once suspected of having bladder cancer, the patient will be referred to a urologist, a doctor that specializes in treating urinary tract diseases and conditions. At times, the patient will also need the services of an oncologist, a doctor that specializes in treating cancer. What to Look for in a Urologist Urologists specialize in the medical and surgical aspect of male reproductive system and the urinary tract of both sexes. This wide field is further divided into 7 subspecialty areas that…

Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Michelle Kral Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is my topic of choice. Throughout this paper you’ll read all about Hodgkin’s Lymphoma; how it came to be? Does it leave, stay, or come back once gone? Etc. To start off, the symptoms of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma are heavy breathing, night sweats,…

You have cancer! These are three unexpected words that can completely change someone’s life forever. Unfortunately, they are three words that are said more commonly than one would hope for, and in the case of Marisa Acocella Marchetto they were said at the worst time; not that there is ever a good time to hear you have cancer. In the book CancerVixen, Marisa opens up to the world about her eleven-month journey fighting breast cancer from diagnosis to treatment and everything in between. She was…

List the name of the article, web link or journal used, and author. Name of the web link http://www.healthline.com/health/wilms-tumor#Overview1 The authors are Jaime Herndon and Jacquelyn Cafasso A brief summary of your article including what pathology it pertains to. The authors started out with the definition, causes and risk factors for Wilms’ tumor. The most often this tumor occurs in children age 3 to 4 years. The authors also mentioned common symptoms for this disease such as loss of…

Chronic myeloid leukemia or chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is the cancer of myeloid or white blood cells (WBC). • CML causes an overproduction of mature, in some cases defective, WBC and platelets. This overproduction can cause splenomegaly and fever. Hepatomegaly and weight loss caused by an increase in metabolism. • CML is a rare form of cancer accounting for 0.5% of all cancer cases. CML is diagnosed in 2 of every 100,000 persons, and it is more prominent in men than women. • There…

Ovarian teratoma is represented by mature, immature, monodermal. Teratoma based on histological type of tumor, all of which it contains mature/ immature tissues of germ cells (pleuripotent origin). Mature teratomas are classified as cystic, solid or monodermal. In mature teratomas – most commonly mature ectodermal elements like skin, hair, sweat and sebaceous glands are notified, whereas in Immature teratomas –show only solid mass tissues (1).Immature teratoma composed of mixture of…

Introduction: Ovarian cancer is the deadliest of the reproductive cancers, killing two out of every three women diagnosed with it. Cancer is when cells grow and divide quickly and then the area with cancer develops a tumor, if/when the cancer spreads to other surrounding organs, it can ultimately lead to death. Ovarian cancer is often called the “silent killer,” because doctors had not known that there were symptoms, until recently. Although, what little symptoms there are, are also symptoms of…

It helps relieve certain symptoms, slow down progress of disease, stop it temporarily, and to avoid complications. Due to the wide range of cancers in both male and female bodies, there is no preferred method of chemotherapy just as there is no favorite method of chemotherapy. Every treatment has a different effect on the body, lasts a different amount of time, reacts differently to the cancer cells, and ultimately has no similarity to the manner in which it reacted to the previous patient…

Pre-operative CT scan is as an important imaging tool to prognosticate the disease and assess the operability. Along with an oesophagoduodenoendoscopy, majority of these tumors were detected pre-operatively. The aim of this study is to see the association of pre-operative CT scan features and its malignant potential in our local setting and this study has shown that there is association of tumor morphology of extramural to the malignant potential of Gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Most GIST…

treatments in order to kill the harmful cancer cells in their body, one of these treatments is chemotherapy. Over 650,000 people receive chemotherapy in America every year (Dunbar). Chemotherapy has several horrible side effects such as nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting, nerve and muscle pain, and throat sores. Many studies have shown the effects of marijuana can help combat the side effects of chemotherapy. Marijuana has been shown to help patients experiencing muscle and nerve pain. Chemicals…