Tag: Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is a common type of cancer treatment that uses drugs or medications to treat many types of cancer. It works by targeting and eliminating rapidly dividing cancer cells in the body.
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Essay on Leukemia
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Leukemia is a common cancer of the bone marrow. In the United States it occurs mostly in the young and elderly and is associated with down syndrome. This research will go over the back-ground information on leukemia, types of leukemia, demographic, genetic links, and treatment for each types of leukemia....
Last modified: 25th Jun 2021
Cardiological Impacts of Cancer Treatments
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There are multiple types of cancer treatments such as radiation therapy, and chemotherapy, hormone therapy and immunotherapy...
Last modified: 27th Nov 2020
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Breast Cancer Treatments
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Pertuzumab With Trastuzumab and Chemotherapy Compared to Trastuzumab and Chemotherapy in the Adjuvant Treatment of HER2-Positive Breast Cancer in the United States Intro...
Last modified: 22nd Jun 2020
Comparison of Breast Cancer Treatments
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Abstract In this paper we will discussing five different ways to treat Breast Cancer .Breast Cancer is when the cells grow out of control and form a tumor that can be seen by xray for felt like a lump...
Last modified: 14th May 2020
Patient with Breast Cancer on Adjuvant Chemotherapy: Development of Neutropenic Sepsis
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Introduction The case study to follow will be based on a 41-year-old female with Breast Cancer (Appendix 1, The Case). The patient commenced first cycle Epirubicin/Cyclophosphamide (EC). 7 days post ...
Last modified: 14th May 2020
An Overview Of Chemotherapy Induced Alopecia Nursing Essay
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Chemotherapy-induced alopecia has proven to be a substantial burden on an already overwhelmed and emotionally-burdened cancer patient population. Hair loss can cause detrimental effects on a patient&#...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
The possible complications and side effects of chemotherapy
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Introduction. “Chemotherapy is a common type of cancer treatment that uses drugs or medications to treat many types of cancer. It works by targeting and eliminating rapidly dividing cancer cells...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
The Chemotherapy Regime Of Bortezomib Valcade
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I will critically discuss the use of this regime and its mode of action in relation to the cell cycle. I will identify the short and long term side effects of this regime and explore on particular sid...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Side Effects And Complications Of Chemotherapy
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Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with the use of antineoplastic agents. It aims to attack fast-growing cancer cells in order to slow down or reverse the spread of cancer. It is used in the trea...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Impact of Chemotherapy Induced Diarrhoea (CID)
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This assignment will critically explore one impact of cancer treatment, examining the physiological nature of the impact. I will analyse strategies for alleviating the impact, considering the contrib...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Chemotherapy and Nail Toxicity
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Hyper pigmented nails: Chemotherapy causing chromonychia Running head: Chemotherapy and nail toxicity Dr Kamal Kant sahu (M.D medicine,) Dr Gaurav Prakash (M.D medicine, DM medical oncology) Dr P...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Pathophysiology of breast cancer
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Cancer is a process in which normal cells go through stages that eventually change them to abnormal cells that multiply out of control. Breast cancer is a malignant growth that begins in the tissue o...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
History of Chemotherapy and Cancer Treatment Research
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An Early Victory A few doors from Freireich’s office at the NCI, Min Chiu Li and Roy Hertz had been studying choriocarcinoma, a cancer of the placenta, which often metastasizes rapidly into th...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Lung Cancer: History, Causes, Types and Treatments
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Lung Cancer Introduction Lung cancer is a kind of cancer that begins in the lungs. Lungs are the spongy organs in the chest that are responsible for taking in oxygen when one inhales and releases car...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Cancer: its Risk Factors, Treatments and Diagnosis
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Cancer is a disease in which irregular cells multiply uncontrollably and inhabit the surrounding tissues. These cells can metastasize to different parts of the body via bodily fluids such as the lymp...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
