Chemotherapy

I was a child raised by a single mother that was ill with cancer since I was 1 year old. Due to this fact I was frequently visiting doctors and hospitals with her. I believe this is how my love for science developed. I loved seeing all the equipment and listening to the doctors explain how they worked. I believe that I lean towards oncology and cellular function of the body due to the high rates of cancer that has affected my family. The most notable and impacting family member is my mother…

What is Gene therapy? Gene therapy is the process of supplementing or replacing a gene in order to treat a medical condition. This type of therapy allows the body to make the protein that is not being made by the missing or malfunctioning gene. Introduction of new genes through vectors overrides the malfunctioning gene and contributes to normal functioning of the body. The process begins when the modified DNA is inserted into a virus vector. Then, the vector binds to the cell membrane. After the…

Everyone knows about Breast cancer these days, due to the fact that every day we have seen lots of organizations working for this sole purpose. Every now and then we meet or hear someone struggling with this devastating type of cancer which is more prevalent in women. According to the recent facts and figures from American Cancer Society about the number of deaths from breast cancer in US in 2013, among all ages has gone up to 39,620. This seems like a huge number, but if we look at the…

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)…

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…

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…

Recent work done: Preparation of Fluconazole b-Cyclodextrin Complex Ocuserts: In Vitro and In Vivo Evaluation Hindustan Abdul Ahad and et. al. developed ocuserts containing fluconazole b- cyclodextrin. Erodible inserts • The solid inserts absorb the aqueous tear fluid and gradually erode or disintegrate. The drug is slowly leached from the hydrophilic matrix. • They quickly lose their solid integrity and are squeezed out of the eye with eye movement and blinking. • Do not have to be removed…