"Chemotherapy is employed as part of a multimodal approach to the treatment of many tumors" (Copra, 2016, pp.1). During the process of chemotherapy very potent anti-cancer drugs are used to interfere with the cancer cells ability to produce new DNA. There are approximately fifty different forms of chemotherapy that can be intermixed to provide the most efficient treatment of the cancer cells. They can receive chemotherapy medication orally or through an IV. If an IV is used, the patients are physically stuck with a needle during treatment, but due to the repetitive sticks, the veins cannot withstand that process for any length of time. In those cases, the patient can choose to have a life port place on either side of the front …show more content…
By taking other medications for nausea and low blood count, it can minimize many of the side effects caused by the chemotherapy. Even with the alternative medications, the patient may still suffer from the side effects. The long term side effects are, but not limited to, the development of other cancers, or permanent damage many vital organs such as the lungs and kidneys within the body. Finding ways to combat the damage from long-term cellular damage can be impossible. (Chopra, 2016; Schulmeister, 2014) Studies have shown that females will tend to have a higher rate of adverse reactions with the use of chemotherapy over males. Over fifty-one percent of adverse reactions are listed as not preventable, forty-two percent as probably avoidable, and only a mere seven percent are listed as preventable. With advancements in chemotherapy growing, so do the adverse reactions. The drugs are becoming more intense, and they offer a higher success rate with a lower risk of re-occurrence. The unfortunate side is the greater adverse reactions, such as nausea/vomiting, anemia, alopecia, constipation/ diarrhea, and fatigue. (Chopra, 2016; Schulmeister, 2014)
Radiation Therapy
The process of radiation therapy uses small amounts of very high-energy radiation to destroy the cancerous cells, making them unable to reproduce. "About 60% of all patients with cancer receive radiation therapy for curative intent, tumor control, or palliation of
Radiotherapy, also called radiation therapy, is the treatment of cancer and other diseases with radiation. Radiotherapy is used when the entire primary tumor cannot be surgically removed. Radiotherapy deposits energy
Radiation therapy is a commonly applied to the cancers tumor because is for its abele to be cell growth. Ionizing radiation working by damaging the DNA of cancerous tissue leading to cellular death. To replace normal tissues such as: skin and organs that radiation must pass through to cure the tumor. Shaped radiation beams are aimed from several angles of exposure to meet at the tumor, given a much larger absorbed dose than in
Over the last decade, medicine has acknowledged the psychosocial impact of cancer treatments on patients, to the point that it has become a subject of psycho-medical research. Chemotherapy-induced alopecia (CIA) is a physical condition that can have profound psychosocial consequences, leading to a negative body image, lowered self-esteem, and a reduced sense of well-being. Patients, women who fear alopecia in particular, may sometimes refuse or select another treatment that lower the risk of baldness. In her testimony, Lori, a breast cancer patient, expresses a common feeling for women with cancer: “The worst part of this entire experience [cancer], is losing my hair [….] The chemotherapy would be so much easier if I had my own hair. I appreciate
Chemotherapy is the administration of chemicals into the body in an attempt to cure/lessen the severity of cancer in living organisms. Chemotherapy is always given with a curative intent, but that cannot always be promised to the patient, so sometimes it is given to relieve symptoms that the patients are experiencing or to improve their overall quality of life.1 While chemotherapy is used as an agent to try to rid individuals of their cancer, it is essentially slowly killing them. The chemicals used for the treatment are toxic to the human body and while they are giving them in small amounts, those small amounts accumulate over time to large amounts in the body. The body is affected by the treatment in various different ways and every body
There are so many risks associated with the use of chemotherapy drugs to treat cancer. The major reason for this is that, chemotherapy drugs works on both normal cells and cancer cells. Therefore, while killing cancer cells, it kills normal cells as well. Additional risk can arise from overdose, extravasation (when an injected drug finds its way from the intended vessel to surrounding tissues) from cancer injections and serious damage to important organs of the body. Thankfully, drugs like Totect (Dexrazoxane Hydrochloride) have been developed to combat the effects of any risk that manifest in patients while undergoing chemotherapy.
For the following 2 weeks harry had his activity restricted at home so the incisions could heal properly. While I was in the oncology department, Harry came in as a patient about two or three weeks after his surgery to start chemotherapy. Harry’s abdominal incision and perianal incision were healing well and his stat CBC that I collected the blood for showed no significant findings so Dr. Brodsky gave permission for Dee to start the chemotherapy treatment of 5mg Mitoxantrone intravenously. Harry was sent home with 136 mg Baytril tablets which is an antibiotic and he had to take 2 tablets orally once a day for the next 10 days. Harry was then scheduled for his next appointment in 3 weeks for his next chemotherapy session. Dr. Brodsky said that Harry’s survival time with chemotherapy can increase to 2 to 3 years on
The enhanced production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) damages normal tissues and therefore results in toxic side effects of chemotherapeutic agents. However increase use The chemotherapy(DOX) is accompanied by various side effects such as vomiting, diarrhoea, anorexia, lethargy, fever, alopecia, anaemia, neutropenia etc. (Sorenmo,2003)
Chemotherapy is most recognizable from its uses in the medical to help people who sadly have cancer. To begin, chemotherapy has saved people lives and defiantly given dejected cancer patients some confidence in their fight. There are many different forms of chemotherapy to treat a wide arrange of patients. They might be different but these horrific chemicals that are being consumed have one goal. These chemicals simply have the goal of entering the body to kill healthy or mutated cells. This primarily where the harsh side effects come into play as the chemicals will kill anything in its path working cell or mutated cell it has no agenda. Chemicals can be entered into your body in a number of different ways such as orally, injections and even creams. Many doctors make specific plans or certain types of cancer if a certain strategy has worked on an earlier patient.
Surgery is the oldest type of treatment for cancer. In its earlier use, surgery was not as successful as it is today. This was due to the difficulties involved with the anesthesias, excessive blood loss,
Chemotherapy usually refers to the use of the medicines or drugs that treat cancer. Sometimes when people think about chemotherapy it spooks them a bit. There are many people out there who don’t believe that chemotherapy actually works and then there are many people who do.
Chemotherapy is given in cycles a treatment period followed by a recovery period, then another treatment period and so on. The drug enters the blood stream and destroys leukemia cells throughout the body. However, they cannot reach the brain and spinal cord, because of a protective network of blood vessels that keep foreign substances from entering the central nervous system. In certain cases doctors need to inject the drug directly into the fluid that surrounds the brain and spinal cord. (Health a to z, 20)
Incurable and slowly deteriorating billions of bodies worldwide, Cancer is one of the biggest killers in the world. Sometimes going undetected, Cancer causes cells to divide uncontrollably and if gone undetected or if treatment fails, is extremely deadly to both humans and animals. Cancer can be located almost anywhere in the body and is able to spread everywhere if uncontained. The treatments most often used to treat Cancer are chemotherapy and radiation. Chemotherapy is a treatment that uses different medication and chemicals, inserted through I.V and pills, to rid of any Cancer in the body. Radiation is the use of radiation to target and obliterate cancer cells. Radiation can be done externally by machine or internally through the use
In 2007, it is predicted that almost 1.5 million people will be diagnosed with cancer in the United States (Pickle et al., 2007). More than half of these cancer patients will undergo the use of radiation as a means for treating cancer at some point during the course of their disease (Perez and Brady, 1998). Cancer, a disease caused by an uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells, affects millions of people around the world. Radiotherapy is one of the well known various methods used to treat cancer, where high powered rays are aimed directly at the tumor from the outside of the body as external radiation or an instrument is surgically placed inside the body producing a result of internal radiation. Radiation is delivered to the cancerous regions of the body to damage and destroy the cells in that area, terminating the rapid growth and division of the cells. Radiation therapy has been used by medicine as a treatment for cancer from the beginning of the twentieth century, with its earliest beginnings coming from the discovery of x-rays in 1895 by Wilhelm Röntgen. With the advancements in physics and computer programming, radiation had greatly evolved towards the end of the twentieth century and made the radiation treatment more effective. Radiation therapy is a curative treatment approach for cancer because it is successful in killing cancerous tumor cells and stop them from regenerating.
There are several treatment options in the fight against cancer (surgery, targeted therapy, immunotherapy, stem cell transplant and bone marrow and cord blood transplants etc.) The two most commonly used treatments are chemotherapy that uses drugs to destroy cancer cells, and radiation therapy that uses high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells by damaging their DNA. Aside from killing cancer cells treatment’s cause many more problems for the patient, including treatment induced diseases and death.
And the role of radiation therapy in the treatment of cancer cells is to get rid of cancer tumors and diminish the spread while preserving the natural tissues near the tumor cells in the field of radiation , and came The need to use radiation therapy as one of the most effective ways to eliminate many malignant tumors and benign,