Case Study On Deanna's Chemotherapy

Overall everyone in Deanna’s family has been very supportive throughout her cancer treatment, even her husband’s Green Bay Packer fans. The person who had the most psychosocial issues during her treatment is her husband Brett. From the beginning Brett is extremely nervous about it possibly being cancer. During the day of the diagnosis he is continuously calling to see if she has any news on the test results. After telling her husband she has cancer, she explains that her confident husband had a pale face, he didn’t know what to say and she believed that he was more shocked than she was. He was supportive when he asked if he should quit playing football so he could spend more time with her. Arthur Frank argues that “illness such as cancer is

At today visit she is home alone. She is awake, alert and oriented. She states that she will be picked up by the bus to go to her radiation treatment. She reports that she continues to have neoplasm related pain in her shoulder and bladder. She describes

Today, police reports that teachers from Wilmette Junior High School sent to a hospital after a basketball game yesterday.

From personal experience, I have witnessed several family members undergo chemotherapy. Often their side effects of the treatment were worse than the disease itself. Effects, varying form person-to-person, ranged from nausea and

The practice based situation I will discuss revolves around Mary, a single mother of two young children. Mary was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a left sided total mastectomy, followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Mary

Jane was diagnosed with lung cancer 6 months ago and underwent chemo and radiation. The treatment was not entirely effective, and her oncologist is recommending another course of chemo, along with a possibility of surgery. The oncologist and surgeon feel that this course of treatment would not necessarily be a cure, but would potentially extend life, and that the chance of living beyond a year is about 30-40% with this treatment. Without treatment, they estimate that she will likely live approximately 6-9 months. Jane is concerned that she will have little quality of life, as the first course of chemo and radiation caused extreme fatigue and nausea, as well as hair loss and skin peeling.

She had just been married for a year and speaks on how her and her husband's lives changed drastically after finding out she had brain cancer. “Our lives devolved into hospitals stays, doctor consultations and medical research.”, Brittany Maynard says in her letter of her experience. Maynard had two surgeries in effort to stop the growth of the tumor in her brain. Unfortunately she learned two things, the tumor came back and it was much more aggressive than the last time and she only had six months left to live. Doctors prescribed a full brain radiation and it had terrifying side effects. “My quality of life, as I knew it, would be gone.”, says Maynard about the side effects that she learned about. She spent months researching and came to a devastating conclusion with her family that, “There is no treatment that would save [her] life..” She did not want to have her family watch this disease destroy her slowly so she began to research death with dignity, which helps terminally ill patients with six months or less to live to end their lives with the help of doctors. She decided this was the best option for herself and for her

Plain and simple, cancer sucks! It is a family disease. It takes a toll on the patient as well as an equal toll on their family members. What’s worst is not being able to be there full time lending a helping hand or offering words of encouragement to the love one that has been diagnosed with such a horrible illness. Now imagine the love one that is infected with this dreadful condition is your younger sibling, and it’s slowly zapping the life out of her, a woman that was so full of life and zest. For Rod Dreher, older brother to Ruthie Leming, and the writer of The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, A Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life, the feeling was all too real. Ruthie’s battle with cancer tested Rod’s faith and helped him find his way back home, but the ordeal was difficult for him on two accounts, it meant returning to the small town he was so eager to escape, plus deal with the fact that his younger sister was bound to die from cancer.

In light of the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo Headquarters in early 2015, the topic of free speech seemed to regalvanize. This conversation will only pick up more momentum and fully convicted sentiments with the rise of social movements like the Black Lives Matter and Social Justice Warrior movements. Edward Morrisey writes his article, The Coming Demise of Free Speech in America, to share information regarding the first amendment, respective court cases, and the results of an implementation of a hypothetical ‘hate speech’ law.

The first treatment is known as ABVD, it is widely known as the initial treatment for patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Her ABVD treatment was a chemotherapy regimen that consisted of six cycles. Two ABVD treatments was equivalent to once cycle and each treatment lasted two weeks. For 24 weeks Elyse endured her treatments all while attending pharmacy school full time, being active in church ministry, and working occasionally. After the treatments were over and most of the cancer was gone, Elyse received another phone call that stunned her mental progression; the cancer was not completely gone. There was still a lingering piece of the mass left. This called for radiation in which Elyse received every day in 2013 from July to August. After the cancer was completely gone her physician advised her to get her thyroid checked regularly. Because of the previous location of the cancer the doctor also advised her to get mammograms

Andy was embarking on his second semester of his junior year in college. After a long bout with a cold and the sudden emergence of a protruding mass on his chest, he knew something was not right. Within a week, he received devastating news - a diagnosis of an aggressive form of bone cancer. The treatment regiment included two years of chemotherapy and radiation. The extensiveness of his cancer made surgical treatment impossible. After just his first dose of chemotherapy, he became septic and spent six weeks in an intensive care unit followed by weeks of rehabilitation. Although he had been optimistic about continuing to attend classes and staying involved with campus organizations throughout the treatment course, a disabled immune system and countless days in the hospital prevented this. His friends and peers became distant because his appearance and prognosis made them uncomfortable and speechless. He eventually relied on his mother and closest friends to take him to appointments because of increasing weakness and chronic pain. When his world was virtually turned upside down and he eventually lost much of his independence, Andy started to display symptoms of major depressive disorder.

I alongside with other radiation therapy students were privileged to hear Carlas’ story from a patient point of view. Her journey through being treated for breast cancer. I could feel a strong sense of conviction in her words. She stayed strong and did not waver when speaking. I was shocked yet amazed at her confidence to tell it so clearly. It was my first time receiving insight from a radiation therapist. This paper will explore the feelings I experienced during and after this time, followed by reflective practice and key characteristics as a health care professional.

My father was put on chemo after chemo, radiation after radiation, pill after pill they all had different reactions to his body causing different things to happen for different reasons. Some would make him sick, some would make him feel like he was being electrocuted if he got cold, some made him happy, or even weak. No matter what reaction happened to his body, it didn’t get rid of the cancer if anything it made it spread. Soon the cancer was in many different organs of his

As established in the National Cancer Institute, “Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide for children and adolescents in America, accounting for more than 91,250 children that lose their lives to this disease” (National Cancer Institute). Cancer is not considered a terminal illness, but more of a chronic illness because of the intense treatment that the individual has to endure. As a result of this treatment the chances of survival for children suffering from pediatric cancer has increased around 80 percent. The increment in the survival rate has made it possible for many parents to not have to go through the acceptance that they are about to lose their child to a terminal illness, but have coping strategies that will make them adapt to the fear of the reoccurrence of that illness. This illness has a great impact on the patient as well as the family because not only do they have to adapt to this illness physically, but also mentally. Research has shown that there are both short term and long term effects that come into effect when the child is both in treatment and also years after the treatment. The type of cancers that these adolescents have to endure range from leukemia, brain tumors and other cancerous tumors that have appeared in recent medical studies. These tumors can either be benignant, an acute case that is non-cancerous or malignant, a cancerous case that will need intense treatment over an extended period of time.While many would say there is more of a

Cancer has one of the biggest effects on the patients mental health but also the patients loved ones and friends. It is one of the hardest things to get a grip on when the doctor tells someone that they have cancer and a fifty-fifty chance of making it. "The disease can bring many changes-in what people do and how they look, in how they feel and what they value" (Dakota 4). It makes people look at the world and their lives in a different way, valuing now what they took for granted and seeing the bigger picture in every scenario. It is something that no one can actually brace, even after the doctor tells them. Through it all though, the person must remain strong and optimistic because the cancer can affect the person's moods and in return affect the outcome of the person and the chances of their making it