Hospitals charge tens of thousands a session for sitting in an infusion bed; drug manufacturers make great money selling the meds (even though some have long been off-patent and, in Europe, cost a fraction of the U.S. prices); doctors and hospitals are allowed to buy and mark up chemoth...
Cryosurgery (very cold temperatures to freeze cancer cells) You'll getmedicationto blockpainduring and after your surgery. You might also get other meds, such as antibiotics to lower the risk of infection. Chemotherapy Chemotherapyuses drugs to kill cancer cells. There are two ways to get it:...
I’ve reduced the pain meds by 20% and the hope is that as the radiation effects start to kick in I will be able to decrease more. It’s been five weeks now since I finished radiation. I needed these Fentanyl patches desperately while the tumors were out of control. I could not ...
Juicing is the first thing a patient should do when they receive a cancer diagnosis. It allows for maximum absorption of a vast amount of nutrients. Following chemotherapy, juicing is an excellent way to supply nutrients to the body for absorption and to begin the healing process. The benefits...
Nurses often pursue this type of oncology certification due to the unique challenges of administering chemotherapy drugs. They’re not your regular meds — chemo drugs can be dangerous and require certain skills to handle them safely. Certification can teach you how to mitigate these risks: ...
Remote control, water, meds. Since I don’t function well in this state, cooking and eating have become a challenge. But more so, is not having an appetite. No matter what I look at to eat, I lose all interest. Some foods ‘gag’ me. NOT the food itself, just whatever causes ...
After the pre-meds, here came Hawaiian Punch colored Doxil. It woud not go in. Something wrong with the tubes. After a while, new tubes were attached and then it flowed pretty quickly. Had another CA 125 drawn to check whether cancer marker went up? Oncologist told me ‘not to freak ...
Confirmation of these connections could lead to interventions for cancer patients—either dietary strategies such as probiotics or prebiotics or possibly fecal transplantation—to promote bacteria and conditions in the gut that protect the brain from inflammation, which should reduce chemo brain symptoms. ...
The cancer drug paclitaxel just got more effective. For the first time, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have packaged it in containers derived from a patient's own immune system, protecting the drug from being destroyed b