Posts Tagged ‘Chemotherapy’
Cancer Nanotechnology
Scientific studies have used nanotechnology to fight cell cancer , making for the first time this technology is used to fight one of the deadliest diseases worldwide.
This is a treatment in which genes are used to carry out the destruction of cancer cells without harming reach cells and tissues are not affected by cancer.
These genes are called “antitumor genes,” by which doctors now have one more option for patients with cancer to those who can not operate because they represent a danger too great.
The experiment was performed with laboratory mice, and scientists involved in the study have said that in a couple of years this may already be done with humans. Everything concerning the use of nanotechnology against cancer has been published online by the journal Cancer Research, UK.
The lead researcher of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of London, Dr. Andreas Schatzlein, said that gene therapy has great potential to create anti-cancer treatments are safe and effective, but placing the genes into cells cancer remains one of the biggest challenges in this field.
Chemotherapy in old age
When you are elderly and cancer is found in our bodies, methods of fighting cancer are not the same as young people because many treatments like chemotherapy can cause damage complicating the picture ending a patient’s health.
Age is one of the determining factors in choosing a therapy to suit their own needs and limits of old age when you have cancer . Fighting a tumor from these circumstances is a real challenge because the patient does not receive the same treatment options one younger. Therefore, the risks increase and hope to emerge unscathed is greatly reduced.
Stockholm has been the focus of European Cancer Congregation 2011 that among the different conclusions reached is the issue of treatment of chemotherapy in people with advanced age. The idea is very clear, the risk of dying at least three times and any infection or discomfort during the treatment could be lethal to the patient’s life.
On the other hand, the faculty of Medicine, University of Athens in Greece analyzed for 9700 women with breast cancer between groups of 65 and 75 years for a period of 5 years. During the evaluation period is concluded that patients who were subjected to less aggressive therapies for their health and age were of a higher mortality rate product of tumor progression.
One of the first ideas that you must learn to live in case of developing cancer in the elderly is that the process is complicated, so the odds of beating the tumor is sensitive, yet, there are always cases (although counted) of people who respond to therapy with good results. As the saying goes, hope is the last thing you lost.
Types of Treatment Stomach Cancer
There are different types of treatment available for patients with stomach cancer. Some treatments are standard (the currently used treatment) and some are being tested in clinical trials. A treatment clinical trial is a research study meant to help improve current treatments or obtain information on new treatments for cancer patients. When clinical trials show that a new treatment is better than the standard treatment, the new treatment may become the standard treatment. Patients should think about taking part in a clinical trial. Read the rest of this entry »
Overview of Treatment Options
Previously it was thought that abdominoperineal resection leading to permanent colostomy was required for all except small anal tumors located below the dentate line, treatment with which about 70% of patients survived five years or more in institutions, but such surgery is no longer the preferred treatment. Radiation therapy alone may lead to a survival rate five years in more than 70%, although high doses (6,000 cGy or more) may cause necrosis or fibrosis. Chemotherapy concurrent with low-dose radiation therapy have led to a survival rate five years more than 70% with low level of acute and chronic morbidity, and few patients require surgery due to the toxic effects dermal or sphincter. Still being evaluated the optimal dose of radiation concurrent with chemotherapy to optimize local control and minimize sphincter toxic effects, but appears to be between 45 and 60 Gy. The analysis of a test between groups that compared radiation therapy plus fluorouracil / mitomycin with radiation therapy plus fluorouracil alone in patients with anal cancer has shown better results by adding mitomycin (lower colostomy rates and longer survival and disease-free colostomy). Radiation with continuous infusion of fluorouracil plus cisplatin is also under evaluation. The standard salvage therapy for patients with residual disease, either gross or microscopic chemoradiotherapy was followed by Read the rest of this entry »
Nutritional food for Cancer Patient
Nutrition is one of the most important aspects of oncology patients, both for its impact as meaning: almost 90% of patients with advanced malignancies have a significant weight loss, and on the other hand, studies indicate that the state Nutrition is a prognostic indicator of survival. Inadequate nutrition begins even at the time of diagnosis because the psychological impact that this implies, negatively inicide food intake. In addition, some anti-tumor treatments, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery, leaving many patients in an extremely unfavorable nutritional status. Read the rest of this entry »
Cancer Treatments – Surgery And Radiation
The traditional treatment modalities include surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Currently studying the usefulness of immunotherapy and biological response modulation.
The main strategy for curative treatment of cancer is excision of all malignant cells by surgical intervention. In the past, this involved the excision of all affected tissue and as many potentially affected tissue, including the surrounding tissues and lymph nodes. For some tumors, particularly breast cancer, is not accurate as ablative surgery (mastectomy) in most cases.
Improvements in surgical techniques, knowledge in physiology, anesthesia and the availability of powerful antibiotics and blood products, have resulted in more limited surgery, with fewer sequels and more speedy recovery.
However, many cancers are not widespread in the time of diagnosis to curative surgery possible. If the local extent of tumor that affects surrounding tissues can not be resected, or if there are distant metastases, surgery is not curative treatment. Read the rest of this entry »
Breast Cancer
Being ‘breast cancer‘ creates fear that the outside can be for women, in addition merciless, this cancer often comes suddenly, without permission.
But with the increasing awareness of women to conduct routine checks on her breasts. So, more day mortality rate of this cancer can be reduced further. Especially in patients under the age of 30 years. But if it turns out this cancer was already residing in your body, given the very rapid development of stage 1 to hopeless only takes less than five years. So you must be willing to do various kinds of tests, examinations and undergo a series of super-intensive treatment. All this was done so that the development of cancer cells can be identified wild spreading rate. This is called the ‘stage’. No need to panic, because the progress of medical technology is growing day by day. So there are many possibilities for you to escape from this deadly disease.
So, wants to know more details about the stadium and a variety of medical terms that must be passed by breast cancer?
Here are his notes:
Stage 1
At this stage, cancerous lump no more than 2 cm and can not be detected from outside. A very systematic treatment will be given at this stage of cancer, the aim is that cancer cells can not spread and did not continue on the next stage. At this stage, the possibility of full recovery of patients was 70%.
Stage 2
At this stage, the possibility of patient recovery is 30 – 40% depending on the extent of the spread of cancer cells. Usually cancer lump size was more than 2 even get to the level of 5 cm and had already spread to the armpit area. Or it can also measure the cancer has reached 5 centimeters but has not spread anywhere. Usually performed surgery to remove cancer cells that have spread to all parts, and radiation after surgery performed to ensure no more cancer cells left behind. Read the rest of this entry »
Uterus Cancer
The traditional treatment modalities include surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Currently studying the usefulness of immunotherapy and biological response modulation.
Risk factor of Uterus Cancer
* Sex at an early age.
* Sex with different individuals.
* Having endured venereal diseases, herpes, etc. ..
* Have submitted altered cytology. Read the rest of this entry »
Treatment of Breast Cancer
Treatment is determined by tumor size and whether there has been spread to lymph or other body areas. Usually, when the tumor is less than 1 centimeter in diameter, surgery is enough to end cancer and chemotherapy is not needed. However, there are few cases that do not require an adjunct to surgery or with chemotherapy or hormone therapy. Currently the most important prognostic factor remains the lymph node: the number of involved nodes oncologist to help select subsequent treatment.
The surgical procedure was always done by a surgeon / gynecologist expert in breast cancer, allows local control of the disease and carry out an accurate diagnosis because it can determine the characteristics of the tumor and the number of nodes affected by malignant cells .
Radiotherapy is the use of high-energy rays such as X rays, to destroy or decrease the number of cancer cells. Local treatment is given after conservative surgery (when used after mastectomy is because it believes that there is a risk that the tumor is played). It develops over about 20-30 days (the oncologist and the radiologist felt it appropriate), and the patient goes to an outpatient clinic or room where radiation therapy is performed, does not have to be hospitalized for it.
As such, the treatment lasts a few minutes. It is not painful but it is something like an X-ray radiation only is greater and is concentrated in the affected area. What is achieved with radiotherapy is to reduce the size of the tumor, then surgery to remove or, upon completion of the operation, clear the area of malignant cells.