Chemotherapy

A dying person says " I choose to die rather than receiving this painful chemotherapy or radiation therapy?" These are words of my one of the close relatives who was healthy and happy before he started showing symptoms of deadly cancer(last stage). An event of my life built an interest in learning about cancer and finding risk-free treatments for future. This defines me as future medical professional/researcher, caring, and sincere person. Cancer has taken thousands of innocent lives and had…

I am a childhood cancer survivor. At five and half years old I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, and my entire life was derailed from the path it was on. I was removed from my school to endure chemotherapy, repeated kindergarten, and felt like an outsider at only the age of five. I was in remission within six weeks, and have been in remission for thirteen years now with minimal side effects. After everything that I endured cancer changed everything for me my academics,…

of developing cancer in their lifetime. (National Registry of Diseases Office, 2016) One of the main ways in treating cancer would be through Radiation Therapy. It is often used as a curative treatment alone or in conjunction with surgery and/or chemotherapy depending on the type of cancer. However, toxicities associated with radiation therapy using photons can be significant due to the characteristic properties of the photon beam. Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), an advanced type…

Will cancer ever be cured? Cancer is a disease of the cells, which are the body’s basic building blocks. Cancer occurs when abnormal cells grow in an uncontrolled way. These abnormal cells can damage or invade the surrounding tissues, or spread to other parts of the body, causing further damage. Dr. Jørgen Olsen, head of research at The Danish Cancer Society says, “I think it’s an illusion to imagine that after millions of years of this disease we’ll suddenly find a solution. I don’t think…

There are many types of skin cancer but the three main types of skin cancer which are basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma. Even though there are three major types of skin cancer this essay will be focusing on Melanoma. Before I can discuss how Melanoma works we have to understand the anatomy of the Skin tissue. In the human body our skin is the protection between the external environment and internal organs. The human body skin can be different in the thickness of the…

manages and adjusts Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs). I learned that sometimes she has to transfer hours from one unit to another in order to maintain the budget. Furthermore, I also attended a budget meeting for the oncology unit. They discussed the chemotherapy costs versus profits, the need for new radiology equipment, and the volume of patients each doctor generates. This meeting helped me achieve my second goal by opening my mind into the business side of healthcare. I realized that sometimes…

sounded menacing. I obviously understood that if someone was talking about it, he or she was also speaking of pain. However, I did not know the true meaning of cancer and all the terrible parts it came with until it crept into our lives. Surgery, chemotherapy, medications, loss of hair, radiation, and numerous other tiresome procedures…

models has demonstrated that both THC and CBD can aid in minimizing nausea and vomiting by way of indirect activation of somatodendritic 5-HT (1A) autoreceptors in the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN). Source https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21175589 Chemotherapy-induced vomiting, while is managed well with prescription medication, nausea continues to be a difficult symptom to control, and this is where CBD could prove quite useful. According to a 2012 study published in the British Journal of…

Cancer is one of the leading killing diseases worldwide. It is a disease that can affect everyone worldwide regardless of nationality or age. Cancer cells are cells that have been mutated. Mutated means that the cell’s DNA was copied wrong. When this happens, the cell is usually shut down by the body to prevent it from reproducing. Cancer cells reproduce 90% faster than normal cells. Pediatric cancer is cancer found in children. It is important to raise awareness to our community about different…

stop and patients using only the inhibitor, these a significant chance that having blood stool will perhaps become norm/ rare. The Other treatment options such as Kampo Therapy, a form of Chinese herb therapy, which helps with the side effects of chemotherapy. If successfully translated to humans, leads like those described here could allow dose intensification of CPT-11, enabling studies of whether efficacy could be improved in relevant human cancers by reducing one of the current dose-limiting…