Chemotherapy

Cancer Medicine (Oncology) Cancer cells arise from different normal cells, thus when the normal cells become abnormal, it allows the cancer cells to grow out of control. Cancers can start almost anywhere in the human body, it can occur in any tissue and at any time of life, but mostly, elders have the highest risk. Cancers are called neoplasm because neoplasm is new growths that arise from normal tissue. Furthermore, there are two different characteristics of neoplasm: benign and…

diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma, a form of bone cancer, at the age of 18. Terry’s leg was amputated, and he underwent chemotherapy afterward, gave him a 50% chance of survival. Two years before, before the discovery of chemotherapy, Terry would only have had a 15% chance at survival; this inspired him to want to raise money for cancer research. On April 12, 1980, after undergoing chemotherapy, recovery, and training, Terry set out on a journey to run across Canada in hopes to raise one million…

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,…

humans and animals as well. Until recently cancer has gone uninterrupted in its mass killing spree. Methods of treatment began to arise such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Now technology has advanced enough to allow nanotechnology to arise. Nano allows access to treatment and detection options that neither radiotherapy nor chemotherapy have access. The use of quantum dots to highlight cells allows for more accurate detection than typical optical detection methods. Use of particular…

niches within the tumor, particularly near vasculature and in central, necrotic regions (hypoxic niche). They seem to have vital roles in tumor initiation, progression, metastasis. CSCs in GBM have also been shown to be resistant to the standard chemotherapy and radiotherapy, indicating their role in disease progression11. **It is important to note here that the CSC hypothesis does not claim that a stem cell is the cell-of-origin, which may suggest that CSCs do not adhere to all known…

Infection can result from the chemotherapy and radiation that the patient receives beforehand because it weakens the immune system and they are more likely to contract viruses. It takes the body around two weeks before its immune system recovers. Graft-versus-host disease occurs in patients…

My grandma had cancer and had to get treatments for it but I didn’t see it up close since I was so young. So in my young mind, cancer was like a game that you could beat. To win against cancer I assumed you just had to shave your head and get chemotherapy treatment. I never really comprehended all of the intricate details involved with treatment. I didn’t see the pain and sickness associated with it. I didn’t see what the big deal about it was. I didn’t understand cancer, even after my dad was…

Introduction: Normal cells have certain characteristics that are important for the proper functioning of tissues, organs, and body systems, but cancer cells have characteristics that differ from normal cells along with their genetic basis. Cancer can be prevented by diet, exercise, and not using products of tobacco. Along with prevention there is treatment. There is no cure for cancer and it is the second leading cause of death in the United States. Body Paragraph 1: Cancer Cells VS, Normal…

• Radiation therapy: (in stage II, III &IV) Radiation therapy destroys cancer cells. It is used when colon cancer has attached to an internal organ so the surgeon cannot be sure if all the cancer has been removed or not for that, radiation therapy will be used to kill the cancer cells that haven’t been removed. In addition, it will be used to treat colon cancer if it metastasized. Radiation therapy helps in preventing cancer recurrence. Also it’s used before the surgery to shrink the tumor. They…

The kidneys are bean shaped organs, the size of fists located below the rib cage. The kidneys filter blood and get rid of waste in the body. Renal cell carcinoma is a disease in which malignant cells form in the lining of tubules of the kidneys, and it is the most common form of kidney cancer in adults. Kidney cancer was first reported in 1613 by Daniel Sennert who made a reference suggesting a tumor was appearing in the kidney. It was recorded in his text Practicae Medicinae in this Sennert…