Chemotherapy

Colon cancer and rectal cancer is considered a disease developed in the tissues of the lower part of the gastrointestinal system. It typically starts in the inner lining of the large intestine as an uncontrolled growth of tissue called polyps. Together they are referred to as Colorectal Cancer. Colon cancer or bowl cancer originates in the terminal part of the large intestine whereas rectal cancer originates in the rectum which is the last portion of the large intestine to the anus. They are…

seen with other types of diseases and cancer. When looking into the cancer and the effects it has. This cancer is seen to spread through to the bone of certain places of the body most of the time, one way that they try to cover this up is by using chemotherapy to help them get as much care as they can. The pain that these people have during this time is unbelievable, they go through months of chemo most of the time spending thousands of dollars on each and every single one of their treatments…

Intrapleural Chemotherapy for Treating Mesothelioma Intrapleural perfusion of heated chemotherapy (ITH) is the chest counterpart of heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC). It is part of a surgical strategy traditionally used to treat pleural mesothelioma. Treating Pleural Mesothelioma Intrapleural chemotherapy can be given into the pleural cavity (the space between the lung and the lining of the lung). It is normally reserved for patients with very advanced disease, for which treatment…

Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is generally addressed by a chemotherapy regimen, however, this method of treatment is highly nonspecific and a relapse of the disease occurs in a majority of patients. Due to the nonspecific nature of the chemotherapy drug, it is hypothesized that chemotherapy temporarily solves the problem and fails to completely eliminate the the cancer stem cells, which harbor the potential for self-renewal and continuous proliferation. This has lead to the need for a better drug…

surgeon can make a larger cut. Sometimes doctors can use special techniques that require smaller cuts for these biopsies. Once the lymph node is removed, a doctor will check to see if it has one of the types of tissue that is associated with Castleman’s disease, hyaline-vascular or plasma cell (Castleman's Disease). Affected Population Castleman’s disease is a rare disorder that can affect the male and female population equally. A person is also able to contract the disease at any age, but it…

The most effective way of early detection of breast cancer is by simply getting a mammogram, which is an x-ray picture of the breast. The recommended age to start getting them once a year is 50, but it is never too early to start. Mammograms have been shown to detect cancer up to two years before the tumor can be felt in the breast (Cancer Care). Other ways to detect breast cancer early on is by receiving clinical breast exams as well as self-breast exams. Women are given a clinical breast exam…

I was a cancer patient before a year. Chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgical treatment were done on me to help me get rid of that fatal disease. After six months, I finally discarded cancer tissues from my body but I was yet to come out of the wasting syndrome. Apart from that, I had lost my scalp hair, eyebrows and eyelashes too owing to the strong chemotherapy. My oncologist prescribed me lots of medicines to regain the lost charm. Latisse was one of those medicines. It came as an ophthalmic…

to fight cancer. They include surgery, radiation therapy, stem cell transplant, targeted therapy, hormone therapy, and immunotherapy. One common therapy many chose is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is cancer treatment using one or more anti-cancer medications that are given as a standardized regimen. There are several types of chemotherapy medications. Alkylating agents attack a cell’s DNA directly to keep the cell from reproducing. Antimetabolites substitute themselves as RNA and DNA building…

higher socioeconomic groups have higher rates of breast cancer and women from lower socioeconomic groups have lower rates. Furthermore (Meade and Dowling 2012) talks about treatment option such as surgery, radiotherapy, systemic treatments, adjuvant chemotherapy and hormone manipulation. Survivorship is said to be improving with the introduction of breast screening and adjuvant therapies (Berry et al 2005). A range of resources are cited as useful for understanding early breast cancer,…

Background Ovarian cancer (OC) is the seventh most common cancer for women worldwide in 2012(1). In Canada, 17,000 women are living with ovarian cancer, and it is ranked the fifth most common cancer for Canadian Canadian women in 2013(2). According to the recently released surveillance report, 2,700 new cases will be diagnosed in 2014 in Canada?(3). Moreover, it is the most fatal women’s cancer, with the average of 45% 5-year survival rate comparing to 89% of the survival rate for women with…