Untreatable Cancer Case Study

My great grandfather, was diagnosed with bladder cancer when I was in fifth grade but he got treatment and seemed to be going better, until my seventh grade year when he began having pain but luckily it wasn’t cancer, he just had to have stents put in his ureters and keep up with doctors appointments and taking his medicine. Everything settled down for around a year and a half but then in the December of my freshman year, there was a cancerous tumor found on my father’s

Cancer is terrible disease. My family has been affected with this disease. My wonderful aunt

This leads to where I started back at my house when my dad told my sister and I that my grandfather was diagnosed with Leukemia. That was one of the hardest things for me to hear considering that my grandfather was a big part of my life. My dad said that he was going to be in hospice care without chemotherapy because he said: “That he had lived his life.” Two weeks after being put into hospice care my grandfather passed away with all of his family by his side.

When she died five years after first symptoms ,the cancer had spread throughout her body over those five years. My mother was very depressed

My maternal grandpa was diagnosed with blood cancer, lymphoma to be exact when I was just 6 years old. He battled with it on and off for what seemed to be a very long 8 years until he lost the fight in 2003. It's hard to believe that was 11 years ago. It was difficult for my family and I to see him in so much pain whenever he would relapse. We would all notice a huge difference in his appearance and attitude as the cancer progressed. This was the only major long lasting health condition that has been in my family. There are 3 basic types of blood cancer which include leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.

My grandmother never really felt like herself for about a year and a half, but every time she called her doctor they would call her in prescription drugs to take and they would hope that it would work. Over time the medicine did not work so my grandmother ended up having to go to the hospital because she had lost nearly sixty pounds. After the doctors ran a bunch of tests, they found out that the weight loss happened because of diabetes. Later that day, the doctors came back saying that she not only had diabetes, but they also diagnosed her with lung cancer. Considering all the weight that she had lost, the doctor could not do much for her lung cancer. They said that if she had not lost that much weight,

My dad got diagnosed with prostate cancer in early 2014. It was a hard year for my family, and I still remember it like it was yesterday. Not even in my worst dreams did I ever see my dad having cancer. The man that I looked up to, and loved to pieces had cancer. I was devastated, I remember crying and being afraid that I was going to lose him to an incurable disease that lurked the lives of many.

The summer of July 2014 my family got devastating news that my grandfather was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Prior diagnose of pancreatic cancer his weight had dropped drastically, couldn’t keep any of his food down, and pigmentation had changed. When he came into the hospital his intestines were wrapped around his kidneys and they found a tumor in his pancreas. By August 2, 2014 my grandfather had lost the battle of pancreatic cancer. His death was slow and painful surrounded by nothing but family and friends. (3)

Conducting medical research on cancer patients for the effectiveness of high-dose chemotherapeutic agent like methotrexate(MTX), and then dosing leucovorin to neutralize the effects of the toxic chemo, should this be done supervised for accurate documentation and safety in a hospital or should the patient be allowed to self-medicate with the leucovorin at home, for the comfort and convenience of the already ill patient.

DOI: 10/14/2009. Patient is a 44-year-old female hospital medical records clerk who sustained a work-related injury after tripping over garbage can and fell on her right knee on 02/07/2010.

My uncle died few years ago with stage 3 cancer. During the last few months before he passed away, the doctor insisted for him to still receive treatments and therapies hoping to reverse his condition. However, it was challenging for us because we knew how difficult it was for him to endure the pain. When he tried his best to go through the therapies, it was extremely hard for us to believe that he was going to leave us. Therefore, it had an impact on our grieving

The patient was an 80-year-old female who was diagnosed with carcinoma of the pancrease about two month’s ago. She underwent resection (Whipple-type surgery) but unfortunately had multiple complications postopratively including gastrointestinal problems, sepsis, malnutrition, and metabolic problems, and her condition spiraled downward over the next 2 months. She reached a stage were she wasn’t able to get up and her quality of life had become extremely pour. Her general condition had became almost terminal, at which time the patient and her family requested only paliative and terminal supportive care hence she was transferred to hospice care. The patient is therefore being admitted into hospice for palliative care of her terminal

Therefore ,that over 80% of patients with gastric or pancreatic cancer has exhibit weight loss and the degree of weight loss with cancer has been associated with shorter survival times ( James et al ,2010 ).Moreover , the pancreatic, colon or non-small cell lung malignancy has more prevalent of

It was March 2002, my dad was taking my grandma home from her last chemo treatment for breast cancer, I was with my mom and some preschool friends and I fell off the monkey bars and broke my arm, My mom rushed me to the hospital feeling every bump in the road. This hospital couldn't help me and I was driven by ambulance to the children's hospital where my mom called my dad and he dropped off my grandma at her house in seattle and came straight back to the hospital for his daughter with a broken arm. I was really little at the time and don't remember much from the experience of her going through cancer. However I don't think there has been a time in my 17 years of life that I can remember her being healthy. My other grandparents both had skin cancer but they were able to not let that influence the rest of their lives. My grandma however never was healthy.

A recent report by Abadi et al evaluated the value of positron-emission tomography CT (PET/CT) and concluded that it was the primary imaging modality to help clinicians differentiate between benign and malignant lesions in patients presenting with a single cystic lesion in the neck [41]. Based on their results, the overall incidence of malignancy was 34.5%, and PET/CT could reliably rule out malignancy (96% negative predictive value), although with a high frequency of false positive scans (26%), thus requiring further diagnostic workup.