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Chemotherapy can be given at one or more stages. These are described here:
• Cancer patients may have chemotherapy before surgery (neo-adjuvant therapy) to shrink a tumour so that it’s easier to remove. It’s usually used for tumors that are too large or too attached to surrounding tissue.
• Cancer patients may be given chemotherapy after surgery (adjuvant therapy) to make sure that any cancerous cells left in your body are killed. This makes it less likely that the cancer will come back.
• If cancer patients have advanced cancer, chemotherapy may be used to shrink the tumor, or, if it has spread to other organs, to slow the progress of the disease and prolong your life. This is known as palliative chemotherapy.
There are few factors to determine the type of chemotherapy that cancer patients will have:
• the type of cancer
• where the cancer started
• what the cancer cells look like under a microscope
• whether the cancer has spread to other parts of cancer patient body
• Health condition of cancer patient
Cancer patients may have none of these side effects or just a few. The kinds of side effects cancer patients have and how severe they are, depend on the type and dose of chemotherapy they get and how their body reacts.
Most cancer patients have no serious long-term problems from chemotherapy. However, on some occasions, chemotherapy can cause permanent changes or damage to the heart, lungs, nerves, kidneys, reproductive or other organs. And certain types of chemotherapy may have delayed effects, such as a second cancer, that show up many years later.
Most commonly, chemotherapy destroy cancer cells by stopping them from growing or multiplying. This means that it also harms healthy cells that divide rapidly under normal circumstances: cells in the bone marrow, digestive tract and hair follicles. Harm to healthy cells is what causes the most common side effects of chemotherapy—myelosuppression (decreased production of blood cells), mucositis (inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract) and alopecia (hair loss).
In popular usage, chemotherapy refers to antineoplastic drugs (“anticancer” drugs) used to weaken and destroy cancer cells in the body, including cells at the original cancer site and any cancer cells that may have spread to another part of the body.
Chemotherapy, often shortened to just “chemo,” is a systemic therapy, which means it affects the whole body by going through the bloodstream. Chemotherapy acts by killing cells that divide rapidly, one of the main properties of cancer cells. Healthy cells that divide rapidly under normal circumstances can also be harmed. Harm to healthy cells is what causes side effects.
Although chemotherapy treatment leads to unwanted side effects, chemotherapy still consider as one of cancer treatment options or given before surgery to shrink the cancer in some cases. Basically, the purposes of chemotherapy treatment are:
Chemotherapy usually is used to treat patients beside cancer that has spread from the place surrounded by the body where it started (metastasized). Chemotherapy destroys cancer cell anywhere in the body. It even kill cells that own broken off from the largest tumor and traveled through the blood or lymph systems to other parts of the body.
In some cases, it is used to slow the growth of cancer cells or to save the cancer from spreading to other parts of the body. When a cancer has been removed by surgery, chemotherapy may be used to keep the cancer from adjuvant therapy (after surgery or radiation). When the cancer is at an advanced stage, chemotherapy drugs may be used to relieve symptoms caused by the cancer.
To achieve the above purpose of chemotherapy treatment, it can be administered in a number of different ways to treat tumors, depending on the site of the tumor, the size of the tumor, and the health and age of the patient.
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Cancer treatment often includes harsh chemotherapy that causes nausea and other side effects. Surgery may be required which can be painful. On top of that the cancer itself is often painful.
Acupuncture can help alleviate the distressing side effects of cancer treatment. It works so well that even the National Cancer Institute speaks of its benefits. Studies have shown that acupuncture is effective at preventing vomiting caused by chemotherapy and other treatments. Most of the studies have been done in China, but the United States National Institutes of Health has conducted its own trials. These trials back up the positive Chinese reports.
Pain relief is a one goal of acupuncture. Cancer patients who undergo acupuncture have been able to reduce or even eliminate their other pain medication. Read the rest of this entry
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