Chemotherapy: The Psychotherapy And Process Of Cancer

The term chemotherapy is defined as: “The treatment of disease by means of chemicals that have a specific toxic effect upon the disease-producing microorganisms that selectively destroy cancerous tissue” (Dictionary of Cultural Literacy). When chemotherapy was first developed at the beginning

There are many different type of cancers, there are also many different types of treatments. One of the most known types of treatments would be chemotherapy. Chemotherapy can be used for a wide range of different types of cancers and diseases, and each of the different types of cancers or diseases require a different group, and sometimes order, of chemicals to properly treat the cancer or disease. These chemicals include: Alkylating agents, Antimetabolites, Anthracyclines, Topoisomerase inhibitors, mitotic inhibitors, corticosteroids, and more. Each of these drugs previously listed have its own cancer type(s) or disease(s) that it can assist in treating. Some of these cancers include: Leukemia, Lymphoma, Hodgkin disease, multiple

Specific Purpose: My intention is to raise awareness of one cancer as well as understanding the purpose of the study.

Chemotherapy, is the treatment of diseases by chemical agents. Chemotherapeutic drugs commonly include anticancer drugs. The way the drug are used vary, some may affect the wall of the bacteria, and cell membranes. In some instances they even alter the molecular mechanism for duplication, change nucleic acid metabolism, and even change interaction between two interacting organisms.

Most treatments involve chemotherapy or chemo this is the most used way to treat cancer although chemo can treat many other diseases. What chemo does is put radiation in your body to kill the cancer cell hopefully before they go through the cycle and create more mutated cancer cells. Most doctors swear by this method of treatment but most patients hate it they say they feel drained and feel they can't get through the day they stand by the toilet waiting to throw up counting seconds before their time comes some people don't even go to chemo treatment instead they try other more natural ways yet these ways do not have guarantees that they will work yet people rather do these treatments then feel like they are already dead the patients rather

Not only has chemotherapy been proven non-effective on many cancers, and it also comes with deadly side effects. Chemotherapy has been found to be nearly as effective as spontaneous remission. According to the Scientific American Journal, studies as early as 1985 have proven chemotherapy to be only 3% effective at best. In the 1985 Scientific American Journal, John Cairns duly states “All told, adjuvant treatments now avert a few thousand (perhaps 2 or 3 percent) of the 400,000 deaths from cancer that occur each year in the U.S. … This figure might be conceivably pushed up to 5 percent; an extra 1 percent, for example, could possibly come from the treatment of breast cancer with cytotoxic agents…” (pg. 59) Cytotoxic drugs prevent the replication of cells and thus used in the treatment of cancers. If 1% could be gained by just treating breast cancer patients with this drug that puts into perspective the 3% that chemotherapy cures across the board. Also, one must keep in mind that “natural” death, be it from an accident or illness not directly related to the cancer is considered is considered to not have “suffered any loss of life span as the result of their disease.” (pg.53) Lastly, please do keep in mind that “A group of patients can be considered cured of their cancers if they

Intro: At some time in your life you have to think about how you would feel if you were suffering from cancer and you went through chemotherapy and you turn to sicker than you were before. Welcome ladies and gentlemen, I am here to talk about chemotherapy and why it is a negative impact on cancer. Some people say that chemotherapy is a get help but I say it is just a waste of money. We should not be treated like this. There are many people coming out of chemotherapy that has massive side effects like feeling down and depressed. Remembering these are just some of the side effect that many adult and children go through after surgery.

Chemotherapy means using anti-cancer (cytotoxic) drugs to destroy cancer cells. Distinctive chemotherapy medications work in diverse ways. But mainly they execute the cancerous cell by deactivating the workings of the cell. As topical treatment is by applying cream (such as Efudix) directly spread on the affected area of skin. Patient may be given waterproof dressings to put over the cream to maintain it in place.(4) The cream will make the skin red, sore and inflamed, so the doctor may give the patients cream containing steroids to eliminate the swelling. As intravenous therapy that treat squamous cell cancer that has expanded to other parts of your body. Combinations of drugs and injections will slacken the caner and reduce its

Chemotherapy is the controlled use of chemicals for a medicinal purpose. Chemotherapy works by chemicals killing rapidly dividing cells. Chemo also kills some of your healthy cells like hair follicles, bone marrow, and GI track. These tissues also divide their cells rapidly so they can be damaged by the therapy. The healthy cells are only effected short term by chemo. Once you are done with your treatment the healthy cells will grow back unlike the cancer cells, who are effected long term. In Heather's case she had four months of therapy to shrink the tumor, then had to have it removed. After that she had to have eight more months of chemo to kill all the bad cells. There are microscopic cancer cells that can be left behind even after chemo. So Heather had to have radiation after all her treatment to make sure every little cancer cell was

After losing both of my grandmothers to cancer I became very interested in obtaining information about the formation of cancerous cells in the body because the amount of various types of cancers continue to increase. Based on the prominence of cancer in my family, I assumed that I was automatically destined to diagnosed with this deadly disease. So I began researching ways to keep myself healthy.

I really wanted to grasp the concept that organelles within the cells play a huge role in many processes within our body. Cellular biology has always interested me because it is a astonishing that such small things can lead to death but are vital for our lives. Biology is a huge field based off of small scale things and I love the fact that the little things are the most important. I have always been mesmerized by the way organisms function and what keeps us alive. Biology is a concept that we can only understand through science, but I do not believe the human mind can ever really comprehend how vast life is. This study interested me because it showed how important cell cycles and processes are and it truly shows that cell processes determine our status as a living being. The progression of cancer is moving rapidly within and outside our bodies every day. It is interesting to me that because of gene mutation, cancer cells lose the ability to detect DNA damage and the ability to self-destruct, this study showed just that. I've always known a wide range about cancer but for this I really saw it as an opportunity to dig in and see what cancer is from a molecular perspective. Being a male I see that prostate cancer affects 16 out of 100 men in the U.S. and this statistics makes me want to understand what is consuming so many males lives. I

Chemotherapy is using chemicals to kill the cancer cells. Doctors use for rapidly dividing cancer cells and kills them. It has side effects such as pain and sickness. Also the treatment also targets rapidly dividing cells like hair and skin.

I chose to develop this area of expertise since cancer is among the most widely developed epidemic today given the number of people who are reported to have cancer. Besides that, it is also important since it can help create cancer awareness among those people who do

Typically, the drugs required for chemotherapy are given to a patient intravenously (through the vein); however, the drug can also be given: orally, through the mouth; Intrathecal, through spinal canal; intra-arterial, through the arteries; Intracavitary, through the catheter; intramuscular, through the muscle; intralesional, right into the tumor; or topical, through the

Type of drug: chemotherapy agent, A class of drugs used to slow the growth of cancer or to kill cancer cells that have spread to other parts of the body.