Chemotherapy regimens

Mesothelioma symptoms might not appear until between 20 and 50 years after the exposure to asbestos. This makes the disease difficult to diagnose or screen for. However there are now some screening procedures which show some degree of effectiveness. Mesothelioma is a relatively rare form of cancer, found in only about 1 person per million compared to a lung cancer incidence of about 1000 per million people exposed to smoking. A combination of asbestos exposure and smoking can increase a…

Millions of people all over the world saved by the correct use of radiotherapy (1) and about 50 percent of cancer patients have at least ones in their course of treatment (2). Radiation therapy involves exposure to normal tissues as well as the tumor tissue and can cause damage to the normal cells because of the high energy of the gamma and X-ray (1). All molecules in the cell including lipids, proteins, carbohydrates and nucleic acids have potential to receive damage by radiation. However,…

I wonder, how long where people living 50 years ago compared to how long they live now? Let's find go out! 50 years ago people were only expected to live until 40 isn’t that crazy. I mean people today can live to 114. So I bet you cant imagine how far we came in medical technology. Back then " the first non-blood transfusion was done in 1914". That was 100 years ago but a tiny bit more recent "The first heart and lung transplant was performed in 1967." Which is a huge deal. So many people would…

What is cancer? Cancer can be define as the disease caused by uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells inside or outside in our body. We all know that the cancer is one of the main causes of death in the world. Cancer, as a single word, incorporates a vast diversity of disease since there are as many tumor types as there are cell types in the human body. Therefore cancer is not a single disease, but a group of heterogeneous diseases that share common biologic properties (clonal cell growth and…

such as chemotherapy and radiation, is too harsh has been argued for many years by the general public, scientists and medical professionals. One side of the argument think that chemotherapy and radiation therapy are too harsh in the already stressful and painful process of having cancer. The other side thinks that chemotherapy and radiation are the best way to eliminate cancer cells from the body. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are slightly different types of cancer treatment. Chemotherapy is a…

Influences of Epigenetics on Cancer Introduction Cancer before epigenetics History of cancer. Cancer is characterized by an out of control growth of tissues within one’s body. These cells are known as a mutated tissue cells, and these resulted in a new replication patterns. The word cancer was derived from the term carinas and carcinoma to describe non-ulcer forming or ulcer-forming tumors by the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 B.C). Studies over the centuries have been trying to determine…

disease has spread from the ovary or ovaries to other parts of the body, such as the liver or lungs (Staging, C., & Staging, O, 2016). There are currently five methods of treatment for women affected with ovarian cancer which include: Surgery, Chemotherapy, Hormone therapy, Targeted therapy, and Radiation therapy (Cancer.org,…

Dr. Phil thank you for reading my letter i am writing this on behalf of my Nephew Marcus Lennox he is 34 he lives in Oklahoma City,Ok on Feb 14th 2015 my sister his mother Jacquline Lennox passed away from breast cancer about 9 yrs before her passing not knowing she was going to die from this horrible disease she gain custody of her then 3 grand children 2 yrs later another grand everything was going fine for her and and grands 4-5 yrs later she found out she had breast cancer the first time it…

In other cases, it is related to an individual’s genes. The increased familial prevalence of breast cancer may be indicative of a gene that is passed down through generations. Two genes that researcher have linked to increased risk are the BRCA1 and CHEK2 genes (Breast Cancer). These genes are typically passed downed from parent to child and in cases that cancer does develop it is referred to as inherited cancer (Breast Cancer). Hormones have been show to play a large role in the risk and…

In the stages of prostate cancer (localized, regional and distant) both conventional and hadron radiation therapy have its benefits when compared to one another; but both offer a different form of treatment. Currently proton therapy is one of the most technologically advanced treatment for cancer. In proton therapy, protons are split form a hydrogen atom and accelerated to roughly two thirds the speed of light; transported along an evacuated tube into the treatment rooms. Then administered to…