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condition the ability to withstand treatment procedures is also taken into account.The most widely used therapies for lung cancer are surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.Medical TreatmentChemotherapy and radiation therapy Chemotherapy and radiation may lead to a cure in a small number of patients. These therapies result in shrinking of the tumor and are known to prolong life for extended periods in most
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Personal Health by tanveer at 6:10 PM on July 15, 2008
is conventional resection, either lobar or wedge resection. The second is liver transplantation and the third is either pre-operative chemotherapy neoadjuvant followed by resection or post-operative chemotherapy of LIVER CANCER because it can cause damage to the liver.Chemotherapy is typically administered intravenously systemic or via the hepatic artery or portal vein infusion regional. In general, systemic
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Personal Health by Tarzan at 4:52 AM on September 09, 2008
of treatments, including chemotherapy, surgery and radiation therapy. The combined-treatment approach has vastly improved the prognosis for a woman with inflammatory breast cancer. What was once universally fatal is now a disease that results in half of women diagnosed being alive in five years and one-third of women diagnosed surviving 10 or more years.ChemotherapySeveral rounds of systemic therapy usually
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Personal Health by Rocky at 6:39 PM on November 01, 2007
treatments that treat both the body as a whole (systemic treatment), and the breast area individually (local treatment). Treatment often includes a combination of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormonal therapy and surgery. For most types of breast cancer, surgery is usually the first treatment. However, with inflammatory breast cancer, chemotherapy is usually given first. Giving chemotherapy before surgery is known
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Three treatments methods are commonly used to treat cervical cancer: surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. Sometimes they are used alone, and there are times when they are used in conjunction, radiation, and chemotherapy.Surgical treatment for invasive cervical cancer is radical hysterectomy, which is the removal of the uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries, adjacent lymph nodes, and part of the vagina
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Personal Health by sana nigar at 3:26 AM on August 13, 2008
Metronomic chemotherapy uses traditional chemotherapy drugs in a new way. Rather than receiving the largest dose of chemotherapy possible, people undergoing metronomic chemotherapy receive as little as one-tenth the normal dose. Smaller doses are less damaging to healthy cells in the body, so chemotherapy can be administered more frequently sometimes every day.People undergoing traditional
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Personal Health by Rocky at 10:37 PM on November 03, 2007
Radiotherapy - in addition to or instead of surgery for localised tumours or to reduce symptoms Chemotherapy for malignant tumours and metastases Iron supplementation for tumours where blood is lost eg with you when you see your doctor. Your main treatment will usually be surgery or radiotherapy. Chemotherapy is less common.Surgery Cone biopsy Some very early cervical cancers may be removed during a cone
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Personal Health by sana nigar at 3:30 AM on August 13, 2008
Unless your doctor specifically tells you not to, you can have sex while on chemotherapy. However, there are several things to keep in mind and to ask your doctor about. For men on chemotherapy, some chemotherapies can go into the semen. Moreover, there may be a small chance that chemotherapy could damage sperm and harm a resulting fetus. Therefore, you should always use a condom for sex, even oral sex, during
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Sexual Health by Sweta at 11:28 AM on January 15, 2008
of children and young people recover completely....Treatment is usually with chemotherapy given through the veins. In most cases, chemotherapy is given in courses over four to six months. Each course lasts four to five days. Chemotherapy kills all fast dividing cells and this includes normal body cells as well as cancer cells.The normal bone marrow is sensitive to chemotherapy and the blood counts may drop, making
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Personal Health by Akram Ansari at 9:41 PM on January 03, 2009
is it is not complete sometimes and side effects like falling hair and vomitting is severe...chemotherapy is a common treatment of cancer wherein chemical drugs are directly infused into the patients body. the advantage is that to a large extent it helps fight cancer...the disadvantage is that due to high doses of drugs and chemicals, patients body becomes too weak and there is a major hair loss, even causing Baldness....chemotherapy
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Alternative Medicine by tingtong at 7:14 PM on April 11, 2008
Metronomic chemotherapy lessens the severity of the side effects caused by traditional chemotherapy. Although side effects arent completely eliminated, theyre generally more tolerable when chemotherapy is administered in smaller doses.Metronomic chemotherapy can be used in people whose cancers are resistant to chemotherapy. Because cancer cells are constantly mutating, they may become resistant
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Personal Health by Rocky at 10:42 PM on November 03, 2007
Chemotherapy side effects may include an increased risk of heart disease, especially weakness of the heart muscle cardiomyopathy. Fortunately, heart disease associated with chemotherapy is relatively rare and typically occurs only with certain types of chemotherapy.If your doctor is considering using a chemotherapy drug that may affect your heart, he or she may test your heart function before
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Personal Health by Rocky at 7:05 PM on November 03, 2007
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will return. Carefully discuss this treatment with an expert in this field. Chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells. In some cases, your doctor may recommend chemotherapy for endometrial cancer. You may receive chemotherapy drugs by pill orally or through your veins intravenously. These drugs enter your bloodstream and then travel through your body, killing cancer cells outside
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Personal Health by Rocky at 4:29 PM on November 04, 2007
Because malignant teratomas have often spread by the time of diagnosis, anticancer chemotherapy is usually needed. Cisplatin, etoposide, and bleomycin are commonly used as a combination of chemotherapy.After chemotherapy is complete, CT scans are repeated. If there is a residual mass in the area of the tumor, surgery is recommended because of the possibility that the cancer will grow back
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Alternative Medicine by tingtong at 4:29 PM on March 15, 2008
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treatments often works best. Chemotherapy is a common treatment. This approach can help destroy any cancer cells that remain after surgery. Chemotherapy may also be used before surgery. It can shrink the tumor to make it easier to remove. You would still need chemotherapy after surgery. In cases where surgery isnt an option, chemotherapy may be the main treatment. Surgery is an option for many women. You
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Personal Health by Rahul at 9:36 PM on December 14, 2008
