Chemotherapy

Even though there is a multitude of ways to treat osteosarcoma, the most conventional ways to treat it are through combinations of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. It has been found that giving a patient chemotherapy before and after surgery is one of the most effective ways to cure osteosarcoma (1). However, in certain cases radiation therapy may be necessary. For nearly all cases of osteosarcoma, surgery is necessary. However, surgery alone is seldom successful because often…

Just like chemotherapy, “radiation damages cells that are in the path of its beam — normal cells as well as cancer cells”(How Radiation Therapy Works). Radiation treatment is extremely effective and is supposed to be relatively easy to tolerate for most patients. There…

• Treatment There are a wide variety of therapeutics options for lymphomas and the election of them is based on the type of lymphoma, the progression of the disease, characteristics of each patient… However, the 3 main therapeutic options are chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy. In this part, these and other methods will be analysed. Surgery Surgery has not any relevant role in the treatment of lymphomas13, it just have a role on the diagnosis (obtaining of biopsy material) and…

Cancer is a disease that arises from cells in a part of the body starting to grow out of control. It is one of the most common causes of death, taking nearly 7 million lives each year worldwide. Approximately one-half of men and one-third of women in the world are diagnosed with different cancer types at some point during their lifetimes. More than one-third of deaths occur within five years after a cancer diagnosis. As cancer comes to be a serious life-threatening disease to human, then, what…

As of now, two cannabinoids (marijuana), dronabinol (Marinol) and nabilone (Cesamet), are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for use in chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting (CINV).1 According to an article about the use of cannabinoids and the treatment of chemotherapy side effects, cannabinoids are shown to have a significant neuro-modulatory function in decreasing CINV.1 CB1 cannabinoid receptors are present in the central nervous system, while recent evidence proposes that…

transplants, I am living a year longer than expected. My cancer is still currently in remission thought and I am still here fighting. I get a checkup on a weekly base called chemotherapy. I am given chemotherapy to keep cancer from coming back, considering how aggressive as it was when I was first diagnosed. At my chemotherapy treatment, I am giving an infusion through tubes in my chest…

Chemotherapy has catastrophic side effects such as pain in your muscles, nerve and organ damage, heart problems, hair loss, nausea, and many more. As the treatment goes on, you will become very weak and have no energy. My family friend who was diagnosed with…

changes, headaches, dizziness, and seizures. But a majority of the cancer cases found in men. At the beginning of the diagnosis of the brain cancer, there are few treatments that can help & fighting for the brain cancer such as radiation, surgery, chemotherapy. Is hard to process the brain cancer. But the treatment depends on the person's health, age, and the size of the tumor. The doctors always work on the surgery first to remove the tumor from the brain. If the surgery isn’t successful then…

treatment methods the could have prevented the cancer from resurfacing as well as rid the cancer all together. “Western treatment options include surgery, which is the longest-standing and most common approach for cancer patients. Another approach is chemotherapy which requires infusions into a patient intravenously, thus the cancer cells die, however this option usually leaves the patient very weak and side effects generally follow such as fatigue, nausea, vomiting, hair loss, neuropathy, low…

an earlier death? If it was me, I would totally chose the Zika treatment over chemotherapy, one because it is amazing that a virus can help the body, two, I could live longer, and three you don’t become bald, as a mark of having cancer. Rich and his group of other scientists are now testing in mice whether combining Zika with traditional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy is more effective than the Zika or Chemotherapy treatment by itself. Because Zika targets the cells that generate tumor…