Case Study Of Cancer

According to Irish et al. (2006), 5% of all newly diagnosed cancers are malignant tumors of the head and neck. Radiotherapy is one of the most used therapeutic modalities to treat this type of cancer and may be associated or not with surgery or chemotherapy. However, despite the radiotherapy achieve only cancer cells target, it can cause harmful side effects in normal cells of the irradiated zone, affecting the quality of life of the patient or even changing the evolution of the treatment itself. The main side effects resulting from radiotherapy in the oral cavity occur in the skin, mucosa, bone, salivary glands and teeth, and some of the most frequent complications include xerostomia, mucositis, dysphagia, candidiasis, among others. Thus, the dentist has a key role in the multidisciplinary team of cancer treatment, helping to minimize the frequency and the morbidity of the complications from the

Radiation therapy can be used anywhere in the body to treat any kind of cancer. Depending on what type of radiation therapy, it can have some side effects. The most common ones include fatigue, hair loss near the treated area, and skin darkening in the area exposed to a beam of radiation. ("Radiation Therapy for Cancer,” 1) There are also safety concerns that patients have when they are treated with radiation therapy. Many people that receive radiation therapy treatment, worry about exposing family and love ones to radiation, as well as the side effects. Radiation effects on the normal tissues are divided into acute and chronic effects (Schreiber). Acute effects occur during the course of therapy and during the post therapy period (approximately 2-3 weeks after the completion of a course of irradiation) (Schreiber).

Usually, radiation therapy is treated by neoadjuvant, adjuvant or definitive treatment with systemic therapy. Around 20% to 80 % of the patients with cancer received radiation therapy through the way of their treatment (de Gonzalez et al., 2011). In this treatment the radiation is usually given along with chemotherapy, which is recognized as chemoradiation or chemoradiotherapy. The Duke University conducts investigational study of neoadjuvant radiation therapy in 96 resectable patients. Everyday patients who received 50.4 Gy dose of radiotherapy are combined with 5-FU-based chemotherapy. After this patients were then surgically findout if there was no evidence of metastatic disease and less mortality. Overall survival (OS) and median survival was (28%:23 months) respectively (Spitz et al., 1997; White and Tyler, 2004). In 1980’s The Gastro-intestinal Tumor Study Group (GITSG) conducted randomized study in purpose of adjuvant chemoradiotherapy in resected pancreatic cancer. After R0 resection 49 patients were treated with chemorediotherapy for evaluation of adjuvant

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Many people are living longer because of radiation therapy to treat cancer, but what happens after treatment is over? Most people go back to their normal life. However, some people will have their quality of life affected by late effects of radiation therapy. Late effects of radiation therapy can happen months or years after treatment and may be temporary or permanent. Some can be minor such as skin changes to the treated area, and some can be as serious as cardiovascular problems. As radiation therapy has become more advanced and more common in treating cancer, professionals in medicine have studied the treatments and late effects to decide what can be done to prevent late-effects from occurring.

According to Komen (2009) side effects from radiation therapy will vary related to the area treated and may include skin irritation, breast changes or swelling, fatigue, dry cough or difficulty swallowing, and lymphedema. The American Society for Clinical Oncology (2013) go on to add more specific side effects such as with the skin itching, dryness, blistering, and peeling. They also mention long term side effects such as developing a secondary cancer from the radiation treatment although the risk is low and the benefits for treating the current cancer greatly outweigh the risk. Another more site specific side effect

From this case study, Dr. John Seffrin and the American Cancer Society can be analyzed as leaders in promoting the access to care initiative to ensure equal quality healthcare to lifesaving cancer treatments. One example seen here is the transformational leadership approach. This style according to Northouse (2016) “is a process that changes and transforms people. It is concerned with emotions, values, ethics, standards, and long-term goals” (p. 161), which the American Cancer Society shares in order to reach its goal of providing access to care to patients dealing with this condition to achieve their 2015 goals of reducing cancer death rates by 50%, reduce the cancer incidence rates by 25%, and improve the quality of life for all cancer survivors (Simons & Rosenberg, 2009, p. 4).

A review of her medical record indicates a medical history of metastatic appendiceal cancer managed at Moffitt and locally with Dr. Wertheim. Her cancer has metastasis to her bladder. She has a Ileostomy and is follow by Dr Beltran for urology. She was recently admitted to MMH on 10/13/16 for hematuria and chronic abdominal pain and difficulty swallowing her pain pills. She was diagnosed with a UTI and treated with IV ABT. She had a CT of abdomen and pelvis which indicates increased metastasis with new right sided hydronephrosis. She had S/P stent and fulguration.

The human papilloma virus-related cancers, which show the overexpression of p16, are sensitive to radiotherapy. They have a better prognosis than those that are not related to human papilloma virus. In this perspective, the overexpression of p16 has been proposed to have a big influence on survival in patients with neck and head cancer being treated with conventional radiotherapy. This leads to the proposition that malignant tumors with p16 overexpression have greater radiosensitivity (23).

Getting the diagnosis cancer changes the life of patients in an instant. They often seek help and support from alternative healthcare practitioners hoping to combat the debilitating side-effects of chemo and radiation therapy. Many patients wonder if a change in lifestyle, diet or, nutritional supplements can help with the often debilitating side-effects like nausea, vomiting, fatigue, muscle pain, etc.

A 68-year-old man complained of a laryngeal invasion due to a neck mass and underwent a wide excision of the thyroid bed and a complete laryngectomy. The patient was initially diagnosed with a sarcomatoid carcinoma of the neck, which showed a rather unusual histological profile. The tumor showed epithelioid-tubular structures containing mucin pools, with a fibrous or sarcomatous background, which is not consistent with the typical morphological features of ATC (Fig. 1A and 1B). The patient was treated with adjuvant radiotherapy (42 Gy) and chemotherapy, with the regimens adjusted for sarcomatoid carcinoma of the larynx (2 cycles of etoposide, ifosfamide and cisplatin, and 2 cycles of ifosfamide and adriamycin). However, the size of

We would like to consider this patient as a whole instead of 2 different illnesses. This patient is chronically depressed and recently being diagnosed with stage 3a Non Small Cell Lung Cancer. It is very difficult to formulate long term management plan after 45min consultation because information available about patient expectations and concerns are limited. In order to arrange patient centered management , patient participation is very important, because patient had stopped antidepressant and counselling prematurely, it could have been due to lack of patient involvement during the treatment choices and poor therapeutic relationship with the physician. Firs all, It is very important to establish a good rapport with the patient , because this patients doesn’t have pleasant experience with the conventional medical treatment, considering severity of his condition and available treatment modalities, conventional treatments are the first line options to be considered. Alternative treatments can be considered as an adjuvant therapies to conventional plan to minimize adverse effects or improve the quality of life.

The underlying cause for the associated effects has been poorly understood. Patients must know about the affects of radiation therapy and chemotherapy on the central nervous system before undergoing the procedure. The article discusses affects of cancer treatments on the cognitive development through means of neuropsychologic test performed on different age groups of children. The affects of chemotherapeutic agents used in chemotherapy will also be discussed. The purpose of the research is to examine whether radiotherapy and chemotherapy actually lead to its associated effects. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are two major procedures used to treat cancer, but the success rates are as low as 2.1% (Siegel et al., 2015). The low success rate and high potential risk of cancer therapies are a major failure in the health

The most common psychological and emotional responses to cancer arise from the knowledge of life-threatening diagnosis, its prognostic uncertainty, and fear of dying. The stigma due to cancer and its consequences adds to the negative reactions to the disease. Oncology nurses can advocate for patients in health promotion and further disease prevention. A qualitative study by Chamerland et al. (2014) aimed to analyze the effect of knowledge provided by the health care workers before and after surgery of lung cancer patient. The research was conducted by a leading semi-structured interview with ten patients and eleven health care providers before and after the operation. Within the discussion, various questions were asked. The study discussed

Unfortunately, if one lives long enough tragedy will strike. Suffering and unhappiness can come in the forms of physical or emotional pain. In my case tragedy occurred when my Nanny was recently diagnosed with stage four lung cancer. She is my superhero and to see her this ill hurts me. She is getting older and I do not want her to be like this. My Nanny has been there for me since I was born , and I am undoubtedly emotional about this topic and talking about it makes me want to cry. She started her treatment for chemotherapy on February 3, 2017, I know this is hard for her but, she can get through this. My Nanny is 70 years of age and since she has become insubstantial therefore, we have to help her in the restroom and we also have to