Purpose of Review Rectal cancers are treated with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery. While trials have illustrated the benefits of radiotherapy for locoregional control, recent investigations have questioned the need in select cases. This review seeks to understand why, how, and when radiation ...
Traditional cancer treatments that are focused on eliminating cancer cells, like radiation therapy and chemotherapy, can have debilitating physical and emotional side effects and often have limited success with metastatic cancers. These types of treatments also do not often result in a long-term cure,...
With this type of treatment, you swallow a drug in liquid, tablet, or capsule form at home. It works as well as other forms of chemotherapy for some types of cancer, but not all chemo drugs can be taken by mouth. There are some that the stomach can’t absorb, and others can be ha...
Chemotherapy drugs used to treat earlybreast cancerinclude: Anthracyclines: This class of drugs includes doxorubicin (Adriamycin) and epirubicin (Ellence). Taxanes: This class of drugs includes docetaxel (Taxotere) and paclitaxel (Taxol). These drugs are often used with others like carboplatin (Parapl...
Cancer of the throat can be treated withchemotherapyand radiation, and theprognosisvaries, depending on the cancer, the patient, and when the cancer is caught. The earlier the symptoms are identified, the better the prognosis, as the patient will be able to benefit from early intervention. When...
Targeted therapy may be administered as a monotherapy or in combination with chemotherapy. Following are some of the oncogenic addictions found in cancers and therapies that target them: BCR-ABL BCR-ABL is an oncogene resulting from the fusion of two genes (BCR and ABL), because of a switch ...
What is chronic inflammatory cancer? Name two cancers that would be classified this way. The three cancers resulting in the most number of cumulative deaths are? A. lung, skin, and breast B. prostate, leukemia, and lymphoma C. breast, liver, and cervix. ...
Various types and stages of cancers are treated with different regimens, some involving radiation in between cycles or even chemotherapy and radiation together.12 Common adverse effects of chemotherapy include nausea, vomiting, appetite loss, mouth and vaginal sores, and hair loss. Low white blood ce...
There are many reasons your doctor might think immunotherapy is a good choice for you: Immunotherapy may work when other treatments don’t.Some cancers (such as certain skin cancers) may not respond well to radiation or chemotherapy but often start to go away after immunotherapy. ...
Uterine sarcomas are cancers that start in the muscle or connective tissue of the uterus.What increases my risk for uterine cancer?Age 60 years or older Endometrial hyperplasia, a condition that causes the uterine lining to grow thicker than normal Estrogen therapy or hormone therapy used to ...