Chemotherapy

that comes with many obstacles; chemotherapy has physical and emotional damage, family issues, and facing the return of what one thought was the end. Cancer in a child is not very common. If a child does have cancer most of the time is it acute lymphocytic cancer. (Zhang). Cancer is usually treated by chemotherapy which is a cancer fighting drug that can be inserted into a vein, muscle, cerebrospinal fluid, or just taken as pills. The side effects to chemotherapy may vary from hair loss,…

Treatments range from chemotherapy, hormone therapy, radiation therapy, targeted therapy or surgery. Chemotherapy is a treatment of chemical substances that contain one or more anticancer drugs. Hormone therapy is when antagonists, drugs such as Lupron, are used to too treat the cancer patient. Radiation therapy is when high energy waves, such as x-rays, are used to destroy cancer cells. Targeted therapy is when specific drugs are used to target specific genes or proteins to stop the cancer from…

available such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery, vaccination and also hormonal therapy which have been globally developed to produce fewer health side effects and active treatment. The development in cancer treatment has brought about the minimal health risk, high efficiency and accuracy. Recently, combination chemotherapy is a vital treatment used for different types of cancer which increases the rate of survival and remission in cancer treatment. Combination chemotherapy contains…

IV or pill form. The most common chemotherapy drug is temozolomide and side effects can be hair loss, vomiting and nausea. Rehabilitation is usually needed after treatment and the most commonly used types are physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and mental therapy to help with cogitative issues. Targeted drug therapy is a form of treatment involving focusing on specific abnormalities in the cancer cells that can be targeted by drugs. Avastin can be used to treat…

treatment, she found that often the chemotherapy’s symptoms were more painful than those of cancer. She was constantly cold, unrelenting dry skin, and chronic metallic taste. After her death, I recognized that nobody should have to struggle with chemotherapy symptoms like my aunt. For this reason, I began ChemoComforts Baskets, a 501(c)(3) that creates and delivers bags full of care items such as lotion, ginger chews, and hand warmers to patients at the UC Denver Infusion Center. Thus far, we…

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…

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…

follow-up visit. Her cancer is so aggressive that your team informs her that she must continue in her chemotherapy. Cassandra’s parents are very understanding and want to continue forth in treatment using chemotherapy. The risk and benefits have been explained to the family. Opportunities for questions are given. At the end of the visit Cassandra refuses to continue in receiving chemotherapy to treat her Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She clearly states her refusal in front of parents and all staff…

Cancer has many forms of treatment, but the two that are known to most are chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Chemotherapy is the use of drugs like cytotoxic and others, where as radiation therapy is the use of x-rays or other similar forms of radiation to cure cancer. Arguments can and more than likely always arise that one form of the two treatments is more beneficial and effective than the other. Considering this, the type of treatment that may be used can differ for each type of cancer,…

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…