By doing this, the cancer cell does not have the substances needed for formation of DNA or cause formation of abnormal DNA. These types of drugs will only work when the cell is in the S phase of the cell cycle (Abramms, Lammon, & Pennington, 2009). These drugs are most effective in rapidly growing tumors, and individual drugs vary in effectiveness with different kinds of cancer. Most of these drugs are given orally or IV. These drugs can cause bone marrow depression, mucositis, and GI ulceration, and hair loss. Teaching patients what to monitor for, and ways to decrease chances of such things are important. Monitoring blood pressure is necessary too as some of the drugs can cause increased blood…
According to the American Cancer Society "Chemotherapy may be used to: keep cancer from spreading, sow cancer growth, kill cancer cells, relieve symptoms, and cures cancer." This quote means that chemo can do a lot of things to help cancer patients. It can kill cancer cells, relieve symptoms ,and even cure cancer. Which means that cancer patients on chemo can have a chance to…
Recognizing the risk factors of the cancers, and practicing preventive measures allow us to reduce the risk for development of the disease. However, if diagnosed, the earlier the treatment options are discussed and began, the chances to be cured are higher.…
Cancer is caused by abnormal behaviour in cells, so it's helpful to understand the difference between a healthy cell and a cancerous cell. Cancer cells are set apart by a few characteristics, including unchecked growth and reproduction. Healthy cells will stop reproducing when they receive signals from nearby cells to do so; cancer cells no longer respond to these signals. Most cells will also cease dividing and reproducing if there's an error in their DNA (known as a mutation). Cancerous cells, by contrast, reproduce despite the damaged DNA and take on powers of immortality instead of dying off. And, finally, while healthy cells will stay put, cancerous cells will move randomly around the body, spreading cancer and making it more difficult to treat. If the reason behind why cancer cells do this would be known, a cure for cancer could be made: the chemical that causes the cancer cells to react could be avoided, and therefore cancer would…
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If a person goes to the hospital (neutral stimulus) to receive chemotherapy treatment (unconditioned stimulus) that causes among others the response nausea (unconditioned response), eventually after several associations may be that the mere fact of attending the hospital or think of the hospital (conditioned stimulus) causes the same response that causes nausea of chemotherapy.…
Imagine yourself sitting in the doctor’s office and you have just been diagnosed with a terrible, terminal disease. The doctors were very late catching it, and they tell you there is not much they can do for you other than make you comfortable for the last phase of your life. You do however; have a couple options for care. You can decide to fight it with medications anyway regardless of the phase of the illness, or you can accept the medications to make you comfortable until the end. Now fast forward a few months, and imagine yourself in hospice care. You are under round the clock supervision and medications to “ease your pain”.…
Today people can live for years with some forms of cancer; other forms of cancer can be cured.…
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Chemotherapy has many bad effects on the body too. It causes bone pains in the body and will cause you to throw up a lot. Chemotherapy sometimes kills red and white cells in the blood which also can be a problem (Side Effects). Even though chemotherapy causes all these bad things to happen like fatigue, mouth sores, constipation, and even low blood pressure, it still is the best chance to stop the cancer and save you're…
When we hear about someone who has cancer, we all ask ourselves “Why them? Why did this happen to them?” I asked myself the same question when I found out the truth that changed the rest of my life. I will never forget the day I found out my Grandpa has Cancer. I remember the day thoroughly, my dad and I were in the car driving home. Hours before, my mom and I had gotten in a fight and my dad said to me, “Please try and be nice to your mom. She is going through a rough time, your grandpa has Cancer.” These words would repeat in my mind every day for the rest of my life. My Grandpa has Leukemia, a type of Cancer where you produce too many white cells and you are unable to fight off infections. However, this is not the only time I have heard…
Some people do Radiotherapy: cancer treatment with radiotherapy including external radiotherapy, internal radiotherapy, side effects, radiotherapy for symptoms, and follow up after treatment. Chemotherapy. Hormone therapy: hormone therapy for cancer is the use of medicines to block the effects of hormones. It does not work for all types of cancer. Doctors use hormone therapy for people with cancers that are hormone sensitive or hormone dependent. Biological therapy: They may, stop cancer cells from dividing and growing, seek out cancer cells and kill them, encourage the immune system to attack cancer cells. Bisphosphonates: doesn’t cause too many side effects, If you have side effects they tend to be mild, Everyone reacts differently to drugs and you may have one or more of the side effects. Bone marrow or stem cell transplants: are used to treat some types of leukemia or lymphoma, and myeloma. They are sometimes called bone marrow rescue or stem cell rescue or intensive treatments.…
There are several different ways to treat cancer. Each method has it's own risks and side effects. The good news is that many side effects can be relieved with medication and alternative therapies…
have bad luck of acquiring mutations in the cancer gene. A person could go through life making…
The first reason that when I prepared and searched some article for my speech and I read an article of a man, he has a grandfather, who had been kept on life support 12 more days. At the last when his grandpa was gone within 10 minutes of shutting off the machines, he and his family were all thankful that his grandpa didn't have to suffer long. So people, who have an ill disease such as cancer, do not want to be put on life support or just for a while because they suffer enough and they do not want to suffer anymore. During the time on life support, the patients have to cope with their death and by that way, it just make they have more suffer and painful.…