Chemotherapy

When patients with cancer need to undergo therapies such as chemotherapy or radiation many side effects occur during those processes that could severely damage the patient’s self confidence. Cosmetics hold a high value with great significance for these patients, that help women stay intact with their culture and confidence from using wigs, makeup, body therapies, and plastic surgeries. Cosmetologist and oncoplastic surgeons take required college courses to pursue a career in this field. These cosmetologists who focus solely on cancer patients, aim to help people regain the confidence lost throughout the illness, and relieve the patient’s anxiety in order to nourish them back to health. As cancer progresses to more people the future holds…

Anticancer chemotherapy: The aim of drug treatment in patients with cancer is to reduce the presence of malignant cells. This may be achieved by causing a lethal cytotoxic event in the cancer cell that will arrest tumour progression. Targets for cytotoxic attack include inhibition of purine and pyrimidine synthesis, inhibition of DNA and RNA synthesis and chemical attack on the integrity of the structure of cellular DNA. Since these treatments reduce the mechanisms of cell proliferation in…

Chemotherapy is chemical therapy that is a frequently used course of treatment for patients diagnosed with cancer. While this therapy can often improve prognoses, it also causes nausea, a generalized feeling of sickness, and emesis, a vomitus product of nausea. Chemotherapy induced emesis can cause critical manifestations that lead to a substandard patient quality of life and negatively influence his or her ability to comply with the therapy. This can result in patients prematurely discontinuing…

source, to non-invasively deliver the drug payload, is much less complicated and more cost-efficient than current or emerging invasive, drug delivery approaches. The short-comings of cancer chemotherapy plaguing the industry and patients that desperately need good drugs, can…

effects of chemotherapy Cancer treatments with chemotherapy will produce side effects as the treatment may alter patient’s biological system; which commonly occurs by destroying the cancer cells as well as the cells around the disease. Unfortunately, while the main idea is to treat the patient’s cancer, the recurring side effects during chemotherapy will almost always leave patients weak and hence reduce patients’ quality of life during chemotherapy; even if for a few days. Common chemotherapy…

The resistant malignant cells towards chemotherapy contain multidrug resistance (MDR) gene. MDR gene is present from the onset in intrinsic resistance, where acquired resistance is due to genetic mutation after exposure to chemotherapy. The resistant cells contain a protein called P-glycoprotein on the cell surface. The P-glycoprotein acts as an efflux pump and rapidly send out the chemotherapeutic agents from the cell, thus reducing their therapeutic effect [2]. The major cytotoxic drugs show…

Glimelius B et all conducted a randomized, controlled clinical trial, (62) between 1991 and 1995, on patients with pancreatic and biliary cancer to estimate any gain in the quantity and quality of life produced by chemotherapy. 90 eligible patients below the age of 76 years with surgically non-curable pancreatic or biliary adenocarcinoma were randomized into two groups: immediate chemotherapy along with best supportive care or to best supportive care only. If the supportive measures did not lead…

enough. This may require having to remove part or the whole of the lung. After surgery, they might have chemotherapy to lower the chance of the cancer coming back. If they cannot have surgery they might have one or more of these treatments radiotherapy, chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy (Cancer Research UK, 2017a). Stage 4 means the cancer has spread to the other lung or other parts of the body such as the liver or bones. The treatment aims to control the cancer for as long as possible and help…

any cancer patients go through rigorous, painful treatments in order to kill the harmful cancer cells in their body, one of these treatments is chemotherapy. Over 650,000 people receive chemotherapy in America every year (Dunbar). Chemotherapy has several horrible side effects such as nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting, nerve and muscle pain, and throat sores. Many studies have shown the effects of marijuana can help combat the side effects of chemotherapy. Marijuana has been shown to help…

Chemotherapy: Cancers Poison Treatment If a doctor walked up to you and said: I am going to treat what is making you sick with “poison” you would think they are crazy! Chemotherapy, a treatment for cancer, is a poison called nitrogen mustard (mustard gas) used during World War II. Paul Ehrlich the father of chemotherapy found that people exposed to the gas had lower White Blood Cell counts than people exposed to the poison (Tharu, 2014, paras. 3). This was the birth of chemotherapy as a therapy…