Chemotherapy regimens

Red Baseball hats and Empathy Empathy; a 7 letter word that has so much meaning. But it gets stretched to the limit in this novel. When a child gets diagnosed with childhood cancer, many people’s first reaction is “I feel so bad” and that right there is empathy. When someone needs love and empathy at the worst time, are you going to help? Well in “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, by Jordan Sonnenblick, the main characters go through a major change in their life. The main character, Steven, has…

Is there a “right” way to parent? The two stories My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult and The Glass by Jeannette Walls are the stories of two very different dysfunctional families. In My Sisters Keeper, the Fitzgerald family’s eldest daughter, Kate, is going through leukemia treatment, while their other daughter Anna, the narrator, was born to donate body parts to Kate. Kate eventually becomes tired of treatment and wishes to die but cannot tell her caring parents that, and she request that Anna…

Busulfan is anticancer drug caused variety of adverse effects for cancer patients. It’s used to treatment of chronic leukaemia but it could cause damage to the male reproductive system as one of its adverse effects. This study aim to investigate the effect of L-carnitine and L-arginine on semen quality, oxidative stress parameters, caspase3 and testes cell energy after busulfan treatment. Materials and Methods: thirty-two adult male rats were divided into four groups. Group I (Control)…

Does marijuana work in the treatment of diseases? What are its adverse effects on human body systems? What does professional say about this and its legalization? These are the questions flashing to the mind when the word marijuana is perceived. The author of this essay is trying to answer these questions by analyzing three articles on the topic of cannabis. Medical marijuana is one of the most controversial topics in today’s political and medical world. Though marijuana is useful in the…

Radiation Therapy is a word many people with cancer hear on a weekly basis (need better introduction sentence). Radiation Therapy is used as a cancer treatment for more than half of the people diagnosed with cancer (1). Radiation therapy is used to destroy cancer cells but it can also damage healthy cells and tissues which causes side effects. We often hear how effective radiation therapy is as a treatment for many types of cancer but we usually do not hear about the side effects many patients…

While medical use of marijuana is approved by over 23 states, there is just not enough research on its benefits. Karen Cicero, writer for Prevention says “Most of the research involves Marijuana or its individual psychoactive compounds administered in carefully measured doses.” Because so little research on Marijuana has been done “the FDA hasn’t removed it from its ‘schedule-one’ drug designation,” Cicero states, meaning that there is currently no medical use for it that is acceptable. NIDA…

Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system. This disease affects the immune system which compromises the body’s ability to fight infection. Due to the advances in treatments, patients diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma have an improved chance for a full recovery. A few of the risk factors for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma are as follows: an individual that is young or late in adulthood, having been infected with Epstein-Barr Virus, having a first-degree relative (parent or sibling) with…

Many cancers are treated with chemotherapy. Cancer patients that are treated with chemotherapy suffers from side effects such as nausea, vomiting, and the lose of appetite. These side effects can cause additional health complications. These side effects from chemotherapy can be counteracted by marijuana. Marijuana can decrease the nausea, alleviate pain, and stimulate appetite. Marijuana may have many…

Research Question: Do the health risks from using cell phones over power the necessity for them in modern times. Introduction: Everyone has been told that mobile phones pose a great health risk to them, and that they are one of the main causes of cancer, but is this really true? Are mobile phones as bad a health risk as we are made to believe? Billions of people around the world are connected due to mobile phones, which means that billions of people face the supposed dangers that mobile phones…

4A.3 Results and discussion 4A.3.1 Selection of Excipients Drug loaded Solid Lipid Nanoparticles(D-SLN)were successfully formulated using two different lipidsand surfactants and physicochemical parameters of the same have been assessed. Tamoxifen citrate is proven adjuvant therapy of choice for postmenopausal women, primary therapy for breast cancer in elderly women as well as preventive therapy for most vulnerable women. The extensive administration of Tamoxifen citrate daily for a period of…