Chemotherapy is very often an effective treatment for many different forms cancer. As common with many drugs‚ chemotherapy comes with unpleasant side effects that are dependent on cancer location‚ cancer type‚ drugs and doses‚ and the overall health of the patient. Chemotherapy affects active cancer cells‚ but it can also damage healthy active cell that causes side effects. There are different types of chemotherapy treatments that share common side effects‚ however‚ side effects can manifest differently
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Chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is one of the most common medical treatments issued to combat cancers within the body. Chemo is a type of treatment that includes a drug or combination of drugs to treat cancer. The goal of chemo is to stop or slow the growth of cancer cells. This means it may affect your entire body due to the strength of the medicine. Chemo drugs target rapidly growing cancer cells‚ but they can also affect healthy cells that grow rapidly. (Chemotherapy‚ 2015) The effect of these drugs
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General chemotherapy education for patients (all that you want to know) What is chemotherapy? Chemotherapy (or chemo) is a type of cancer treatment that uses drugs to destroy cancer cells. How do chemotherapy work? Chemotherapy works by stopping or slowing the growth of cancer cells. Some healthy cells may also be affected by chemotherapy. Damage to healthy cells may cause side effects. Chemotherapy eliminates cancer cells‚ while minimizing the negative effect on normal‚ healthy cells
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Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer by the use of chemical substances‚ agents or drugs that are toxic to the causative agent of the disease. It works on active cells that grow and divide into more of the same type of cell. Cancer cells are active‚ so are some healthy cells‚ and side effects happen when chemotherapy destroy the healthy cells. Chemotherapy is a double-edged sword‚ it can cure the disease and be harmful to the body at the same time. I personally discourage the use of that treatment
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27th July 2012 |Total Marks Scored | | ‘Father of Chemotherapy’ Chemotherapy is the use of chemical matters to cure diseases (1). The origins of chemotherapy is attributed to Paul Erhlich‚ a Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1814-1915)‚ who is recognized as the ‘Father of Chemotherapy’ due to his works in stains using different dyes and his discovery of the drug ‘bullets’ (2). In his workings of stains using different
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Treatment of chemotherapy on the liver Anatomy Honors‚ Period 6 Introduction Chemotherapy is known to have many negative side effects on all different parts of the body. Your hair falls out and your body becomes weak‚ but what effect does it have on your liver? This paper explores the effects chemo has on a person by review of scientific articles and experiments. Medicine Bleomycin is known to induce DNA strand breakage but is an integral part of chemotherapy in patients with germ-cell
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Chemotherapy and cancer treatments have been a process in the making for over a hundred years. Although people have a sort of cynical approach towards cancer‚ saying that it is incurable and will ravage humans and society for the years to come‚ advancements have been made and in a positive manner. Cancer has been seen in a negative manner even in the ancient ages. People believed (and still do) that once cancer had taken root‚ there was no way to stop or cure it. They believed that more harm than
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As soon as I walk into a room and smell germ x hand sanitizer I am thrown back into the days where I had chemotherapy. The picture that I get in my flash back is of a hospital room with me on the bed holding my dad’s hand while Dr. Salvi puts the needle into my port. Dr. Salvi was the best in the business‚ there was no better than him and his partener. I would not feel any pain as the doctor slips the butterfly needle into my port because I had put numbing cream on it two hour before. I had always
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female. It may be more pronounced in men as compared to females due to the hormonal differences. The causes of loss of hair include hormone testosterone‚ pregnancy‚ illness‚ emotional or physical stress and chemotherapy especially among cancer patients. This article will concentrate on chemotherapy and other drug related hair loss and treatment. Let us start by having an understanding of the drugs that cause the loss of hair. It is not every drug that cause this phenomenon. It is therefore not necessary
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spanish speaking female who was diagnosed with right inflammatory breast cancer on 8/27/15. The patient underwent chemotherapy from 10/30/15 to 4/15/16. A right sided simple mastectomy was performed on 5/31/16 and 4 sentinel lymph nodes were removed‚ 2 of which were positive. The patient began her physical therapy on 7/6/16‚ which was about two months after she finished her chemotherapy regimen. Radiation therapy began on 7/20/16 which was 2 weeks after her initial evaluation and ended on 8/17/16
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