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Your chemotherapy treatment experience, while daunting, can be improved if you approach it with the correct knowledge in hand. Understanding your treatment timeline, common side effects and techniques for dealing with them, as well as a basic understanding of how chemotherapy works will help give you the mental fortitude necessary to defeat your cancer. What
How Medicine Works Over-the-counter and prescription medicines are ubiquitous in our society, and are used for almost every ailment. Most afflictions have a medicine to heal the problem or treat the symptom. It may be helpful to understand how medicines work in our body. All medications are chemicals that, after being ingested, travel to a
For many years women were advised by their physicians to take hormone pills to avoid the consequences of menopause. Estrogen hormones were prescribed in the belief that they would reduce the risk of osteoporosis and heart disease, and would alleviate hot flashes and other unpleasant symptoms of menopause. New medical studies have radically altered the
Patients may seek a new or experimental treatment by enrolling on a clinical trial. The only way to determine if a new treatment is safe and effective is to test it in a clinical trial. Most standard treatments for diseases were tested in clinical trials. Clinical trials are published in medical journals to help guide
Bone marrow transplant is a treatment for leukemia and other serious medical conditions. It can cure a patient who has an otherwise incurable disease. Although developed for leukemia, bone marrow transplant is used in lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and testicular cancer patients. It is also used to treat a rare condition called aplastic anemia. Bone marrow
People with medical problems are increasingly turning to alternative therapies. Alternative therapies evolved from a belief that modern medicine attempts to treat the disease, but ignores the entire patient. Supporters of alternative therapies believe that treating the entire person will restore physiological balance, leading to reversal of the disease process. This approach allows people to
There are numerous ways to treat cancer, but the most common cancer treatments include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, biological therapy, hormone therapy and surgery. Each treatment type can come with its own side effects, which may include fatigue, nausea, vomiting, decreased blood cell counts or anemia, mouth sores, appetite changes, skin changes, throat changes, or
Clinical trials for cancer are research studies specifically targeted for cancer patients. Cancer clinical trials are designed to find new ways to find, diagnose, treat, prevent, and manage cancer. Many of the treatments used today are results of past clinical trials. Through clinical trials, researchers can determine whether new treatments are safe and effective, or
Radiation uses high-energy radiation to shrink tumors and kill cancer cells. X-rays, gamma rays and charged particles are all types of radiation used for cancer treatment. Radiation therapy may be curative to certain types of cancer, if they are localized to one part of the body. It may also be used as part of adjuvant