Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy Treatment for Breast Cancer - Consumer medical information about chemotherapy for the treatment of breast cancer, includes potential side effects. Source:WebMD Medical Reference from The Cleveland Clinic ...
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Chemotherapy and hair loss: What to expect during treatment
Find out what to expect when it comes to chemotherapy and hair loss. Plan ahead so you can spend your energy staying healthy rather than worrying about how you look.
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Chemotherapy
Definition:
Chemotherapy refers to drugs that are used to kill microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi) and cancer cells. Most commonly, the term is used to refer to cancer-fighting drugs.
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Chemotherapy combination proves effective
BUPA investigative news - 5 June 2003
written by Rachel Newcombe, reporter for BUPA's Health Information Team ...
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How can you take care of yourself during chemotherapy? You can eat the right foods to build up your strength. Stay away from people who have colds or the flu. Get the rest you need and pace yourself.
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Chemotherapy
Alternate Names
: Cancer Chemotherapy, Cancer Drug Therapy, Cytotoxic Chemotherapy
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Chemotherapy we know is traditionally effective in many types of lymphoma. And it's possible to add the two together for two reasons. First of all, they work in different ways.
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Photochemotherapy, or PUVA, is a combination of ultraviolet A (UVA) light therapy and a psoralen medication, which makes the skin more sensitive to the ultraviolet light. PUVA can be an effective treatment for severe atopic dermatitis.
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When chemotherapy or radiation therapy reduces the numbers of neutrophils significantly, a condition called neutropenia develops. Patients with neutropenia are at increased risk of infection, according to National Cancer Institute experts.
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Bladder Chemotherapy Instillation
What is Bladder Chemotherapy Instillation?
Will my medical insurance cover this procedure?
What are the preparations for Bladder Chemotherapy Instillation?
Is this procedure painful and how long will it take?
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NAUSEA FROM CHEMOTHERAPY
Nausea is the single most common side effect of chemotherapy for cancer. It can be incapacitating and so severe that people refuse to continue treatment.
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Chemotherapy can have side effects because the drugs used cause some damage to healthy cells as well. These can include hair loss, tiredness, feeling sick, vomiting and a lowering of immunity. People's sex lives can also be affected.
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Chemotherapy is a drug treatment that works by interfering with the cancer cell's ability to grow or reproduce. Different groups of drugs work in different ways to fight cancer cells and shrink tumors.
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Chemotherapy drugs reach almost all parts of the body. This helps to kill cancer cells that have spread from the original site of the cancer. The brain and the testes usually are exposed only to very low concentrations of chemotherapy drugs.
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Chemotherapy fights cancer using drugs, which may be delivered via pill or needle. Some chemotherapy types kill cancer cells directly, while others act indirectly by making cancer cells more vulnerable to radiation.
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ChemotherapyThe treatment of diseases, usually cancer, with drugs (chemicals).
Hair folliclesTiny organs in the skin, each one of which grows a single hair.
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CHEMOTHERAPY: Treatment of disease or mental illness using drugs. Often used in reference to cancer. Chemotherapy for cancer involves cytotoxic drugs that target rapidly dividing cells.
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Chemotherapy combined with immunotherapy. Chemotherapy uses different drugs to kill or slow the growth of cancer cells; immunotherapy uses treatments to stimulate or restore the ability of the immune system to fight cancer.
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electrochemotherapy (ECT) Anticancer therapy for the treatment of basal cell carcinoma of the skin; procedure combines chemotherapeutic agent, bleomycin sulfate, which is injected directly into the tumor cell, ...
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Hormonal chemotherapy is based upon the fact that the growth of some malignant tumors (specifically those of the reproductive organs) is influenced by reproductive hormones.
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Radiation and chemotherapy have unpleasant side effects, but without them the disease is likely to spread, eventually proving fatal. Even with treatment, the cancer may return. However, intensive therapy gives you the best chance of a cure.
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Side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy
Further spread of the cancer
Pleural effusions (fluid between the lung and chest wall), which can cause shortness of breath ...
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Chemotherapy The treatment of cancer with drugs. Adjuvant chemotherapy Chemotherapy given to kill any remaining cancer cells, usually after all detectable tumor is removed by surgery or radiotherapy.
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OBJECTIVE: To compare the therapeutic efficacy of narrowband (TL-01) UV-B phototherapy vs photochemotherapy (psoralen-UV-A [PUVA]) in patients with chronic plaque-type psoriasis.
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Children with suppressed immune systems (due to chemotherapy, radiation, AIDS or drugs given to protect transplanted organs) should receive the injected polio vaccine (IPV), which is made from killed virus, rather than the oral vaccine.
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For small cell cancer, chemotherapy and radiation are usually used in limited stage disease (when the disease is confined to the chest ).
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For most people, the cancer can be cured or controlled by surgery and, in some cases, by combinations of radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Never before has the outlook for cancer treatment and cure been so hopeful.
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She has had surgery and is now undergoing chemotherapy. In our readings about this condition, we have found several references to "breast cancer vaccine" that is reportedly the safest and most effective treatment, ...
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Chemotherapy, for example, produces hair loss, extreme nausea, vomiting, fatigue, weakness, sterility, and damage to the liver, kidneys, and heart. What should you do? That is your decision.
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Proximal RTA also occurs in patients treated with ifosfamide, a drug used in chemotherapy. A few older drugs—such as acetazolamide or outdated tetracycline—can also cause proximal RTA.
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Medication such as cancer chemotherapy
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Cancer chemotherapy and inherited disorders are among the causes of low white blood counts, which lower resistance to infection.
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People, who are immunosuppressed due to chemotherapy, AIDS, or other diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, are also at risk for more severe symptoms.
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Certain medications such as contraceptives (oral, implanted, and injected), oral corticosteriods, antidepressants, antipsychotics, thyroid, and some chemotherapy drugs may cause amenorrhea for some women.
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EWING'S SARCOMA - A malignant primary bone tumor that arises most commonly in the first three decades of life. It is highly malignant (prone to spread) and often requires treatment with some combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy.
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