Archive for the ‘Therapeutic’ Category
Chemotherapy treatment is used to treat cancer and chemotherapy drug prevents growth of cancer cells. These drugs are also used to treat non-cancerous conditions with lower doses. This treatment is generally used after surgery which helps to avoid reappearance of cancer.Though it is true that chemotherapy is superior treatment, it also produces some side effects [...]
Chemotherapy is the general term in which many different chemical agents are used to kill or stop the growth of cancer cells and even kills cancer cells; those are in existence since a long way from the original cancer. This treatment helps to break off the process of multiplication of cells.Injection run drugs, in a [...]
Ovarian cancer is a disease that afflicts up to 25,000 women in America every year. This disease begins with tumors in the ovaries, but the disease spreads as the tumors eventually attack other parts of the body. Some women have their ovaries removed when the disease is caught at an early stage. However, at a [...]
Radiation therapy uses high-energy to shrink, damage or destroy cancer cells, and also is used to ease symptoms in advanced cancer. Chemotherapy uses different strategies to stop cancer cells from dividing, and is delivered to the whole body.Radiation therapy. Most cancers can be treated with radiation therapy. With the use of CT scans and possibly [...]
Normally, human cells divide and increase permanently. This way our body is growing and inactive cells are replaced. That means a controlled process when the resulting cells are identically with their origin. Sometimes, from unknown reasons, the process gets out of control and the result of cells division is an abnormal growth called a tumour. [...]
After mastectomy, women are sent to see the oncologists, and they are often told to go for chemotherapy. This treatment is like an “insurance” against future problems. Chemotherapy can kill all the remaining cancer cells in the body. In this way the cancer can be cured. Chemotherapy can also stop cancer from spreading to other [...]