"At this time, I am also thinking of all those whose lives have been affected by cancer. For everyone facing this disease, in whatever form, please do not lose faith or hope. You are not alone." What is preventative chemo and how long does it last? Thomas Moore, Sk...
Chemotherapy is a medical treatment that is used to treat cancer using anti-cancer drugs. The drugs administered inhibit mitosis, or cell division of the cancer cells. One of the side affects is often hair loss, because the drugs usually also impact normal, healthy, fast-dividing cells, such...
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network said Wednesday that nearly all the centers it surveyed late last month were dealing with shortages of carboplatin and cisplatin, a pair of drugs used to treat a range of cancers. Some are no longer able to treat patients receiving carboplatin at the inten...
Chemo Is Praised for Hard-To-Treat Cancer
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Image: Kate and King Charles are both undergoing cancer treatment. Pic: PA Image: The Princess of Wales was last seen in public on Christmas Day. Pic: AP In many ways the treatment can sometimes be harder to take, the side effects of chemotherapy can be tougher. Chemo its...
Pregnancy-associated breast cancer is as chemosensitive as non-pregnancy-associated breast cancer in the neoadjuvant setting. BACKGROUND:heimfhistudy waso determinehehemosensitivityf pregnancy-associatedreastancer (PABC) inhe neoadjuvantettingyomparinghebserved pathologicalomplete......
Clear-cell cancer of the ovary—is it chemosensitive? Int J Gynecol Cancer 2005; 15: 432–437. The records of all patients with clear-cell ovarian cancer (CCC) who underwent complete surgical staging and chemotherapy between 1984 and 2001 were reviewed and 39 patients identified as suitable ...
Some time goes by, and the patient has more tests only to find out that the cancer is back. And this time it’s spread to their liver, their lungs, their brain, their bones… They go through more rounds of chemo and radiation, but the treatments don’t work as well the second time...
“live in the present” – so I’ll focus onthat :) ) Also note that different chemo cocktails are very differentfrom one another, so my experience may be very different from other cancerpatients you know. I currently get a weekly chemo infusion every Tuesday(depending on the week, ...