Chemotherapy

Let your oncologist know you are coming down with a cold. If you have no fever, you can use Grandma's best approach: resting, drinking lots of fluids, and the use of over-the-counter cold medicines are generally safe. If you develop fever or cough call your oncologist.

Raw fruits and vegetables. This vary from one person to another, for me it was plain rice, even just one spoon of white rice did the trick for me.

Doctors try to remove tumors from the body to prevent them from spreading.

The tumors can grow and spread throughout the body and affect or infect other organs necessary for proper body functioning and prevent them from doing their job which can result in death..

I read recently that the survival rate is 3%! My husband just died from the result of his chemotherapy treatment. His last scan report had shown no sign of cancer. Then he began to die, his body became more weak and started to have many complications throughout his body. I plan to start an advocate organization to warn cancer patients that you are more likely to die from the chemo treatment than from cancer! The hospital where he died, administered a lethal dosage of morphine to finally end his life. All of America needs to be aware of how hospitals are murdering people so that they may continue to make large amounts of monies.

Standard chemo (Adriamicin, Cytotoxin, etc.) start to work nearly instantly. Putting it simply, they target the fastest growing cells, which typically are malignant cells. You're on your way to recovery the moment the meds hit your bloodstream.

I think it depends on what kinda of cancer you have and how you're being treated for it. Some radiation and chemo therapy can cause you to loose hair but everybodies different.

Cancer doesn't make you lose your hair, but the chemo does. The reason for this is that chemotherapy is the delivery of toxins that kill or damage the fastest growing cells in your body. Malignant cells grow and replicate super quickly, so the chemo is targetted at them, but hair folicles grow fast as well. So -- if the chemo is working -- almost everyone loses their hair at some point in the process.

The good news is that it grows back (and often it grows back curly!).

Not all forms of chemotherapy can cause hair loss. Many have the potential for hair loss, but it is not a guaranteed side effect. For example, there are two kinds of chemotherapy, Aromasin and Tamoxifan. they are both pill form of chemotherapy and do not normally cause hair loss.

Very aggressive chemotherapy drugs (ex:cyclosporin) affects very fast growing cells-(that is what cancer is-very fast growing, unhealthy cells) Hair is a very fast growing type of cell and chemotherapy drugs stop the growth of them along with the cancer cells. Nausea is caused by the strength of the drugs and their effect on the digestive system. There are fantastic drugs (Zofran, Taxol) that help prevent neasua.

Anti-emetic drugs help to lessen feelings of nausea. Two anti-nausea medications that may be used are Kytril and Zofran.

Methotrexate inhibits DHFR to kill cancer cells. However, inhibiting DHFR also reduces the amount of precursors needed for de novo purine synthesis in the body. Folic acid can hence be administered as it can be converted to these precusors without DHFR.

Some patients with metastatic cancer of the liver can have their lives prolonged for a few months by chemotherapy, although cure is not possible.

Radiotherapy uses ionizing radiation to treat cancer by controlling or killing malignant cells. It can be used to cure cancer if the cancer is localized in one area of the body.

about 2 weeks i think

I presently have acute bronchitis and have had it for 4 weeks. Healing time is individual, based on prior health status, age and other contributing factors, like smoking and air pollutants. There is no definite answer for how long it will last.

Stage IV cancer indicates a significantly advanced and sometimes spread-out cancer. Survival is highly limited in the frist place; chemotherapy might have some chance, but this is much reduced from for example a Stage I or Stage II.

yes. There are different cell types of cancer and there are certain markers that determine which drugs will be most effective and which drugs will be ineffective.

There are several possible effects of chemotherapy on eyes, since chemotherapy is a lump term that describes treatment through use of drugs. These effects would depend on what type of chemotherapy. You should consult your doctor about the specific side-effects of your specific type of chemotherapy.

no it cant

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Not just yes, it will burn you from the inside and cause a variety of health conditions, as well chemo, will only shrink the cancer cells for a short period , making you believe you beat it, but it will agitate the cells, and run more rapid after 30-60 days....

Chemotherapy refers to the use of cytotoxic drugs in cancer treatment.'Chemo' means medicine or 'drug''therapy' means 'treatment'.

Chemotherapeutic agents or drugs are 'magic bullets' that destroy the fast-dividing cancer cells. However these drugs are unable to differentiate between the normal cells and the cancer cells and they destroy the former too, in their war against cancer. This leads to certain side effects.

Yes, but because your immune system is compromised (e.g. you got cancer because your immune system isn't working at its best, and you just had chemo), the provider "reading" the TB skin test result will follow guidelines for immunocompromised patients. You may have less of a response than a patient with a normally functioning immune system. This usually means that a raised "induration" is read as positive when it is smaller than the regular guidelines.