the disease itself was responsible for its increasing capability to inflict deaths and therefore cause higher mortality rates worldwide. In the quest to cure cancer‚ different modalities were developed by oncologists namely surgery‚ irradiation‚ chemotherapy‚ endocrine therapy‚ gene therapy‚ and organ transplantation (Bast et al.‚ 2000). However‚ utilization of these methods of therapeutic approaches did not give a complete response on killing all cancer cells and produced adverse effects on normal
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Thank you chair parson. Good afternoon everyone. Today‚ I would like to talk about Effects of steroid ointment application on chemotherapy-induced phlebitis by A randomized‚ double-blind‚ placebo-controlled clinical trial. We have nothing to declare for this research. Phlebitis is a very common side effects of continuous intravenous infusion of 5-fluorouracil via the peripheral veins. We evaluated the preventive effects of topical steroid application on fluorouracil-induced phlebitis by randomized
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Recent advancements in medical technology have allowed doctors to permanently extract the most prevalent cancerous brain tumor‚ Glioblastoma Multiforme‚ and improve the lives of countless individuals and their families. By using a modified form of the poliovirus‚ doctors are now able to eradicate the cancer without compromising the health of the patient. Glioblastoma Multiforme is the most common and most aggressive cancer that starts within the brain. Glioblastomas represent 15% of all brain
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Cancer What is cancer? Cancer is a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of unusual cells in a part of the body. It is a disease of mitosis‚ which begins when one cell is transformed from a normal cell to a cancerous cell. Mitosis is a type of cell division which has 6 steps (Interphase‚ Prophase‚ Metaphase‚ Anaphase‚ Telophase‚ and Cytokinesis) that result in two daughter cells that are clones of the parent. Cancerous cells do not abide by the normal instructions of mitosis. Instead‚ the
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What You Need to Know About Itching Itching can be one of the cruelest forms of torture known to man. In many ways‚ it is one of the most annoying side effects of cancer and many of the medications that are used to treat it. There are two forms of itching the average cancer patient may experience‚ itching that comes on suddenly is referred to as "acute"‚ and itching that occurs over a longer period of time is referred to as "chronic". The itching might occur by itself or along with various other
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go through throughout her childhood and adulthood. Not only did she have intensive chemotherapy for two and a half years‚ she had to be the "guinea pig" for the doctors wanting to try different types of skin graft on her jaw. Overall‚ Grealy beat cancer with only a one-in-twenty chance of survival‚ and endured more than thirty operations to reconstruct her jaw. Grealy described her first experience with chemotherapy as her body "wanting to turn itself inside out‚ making wave after wave of attempts
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hours before the radiation procedure. Cisplatin combined with 5-fluorouracil is the second cycle‚ given every 4 weeks during radiation. These drugs work systemically so that cancer cells found in all parts of the body are targeted. Side effects of chemotherapy include nausea/vomiting‚ loss of appetite‚ hair loss‚ mouth sores‚ fatigue and low blood cell counts‚ which puts the patient at an increased risk for infection (fewer white blood cells)‚ bleeding/bruising (fewer platelets) and shortness of breath
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Cancer is a dangerous disease that is caused by an uncontrolled group of abnormal cells in the body. Cancerous cells‚ also known as malignant tumors or neoplasm‚ begin to divide without stopping and invade surrounding tissues. The body is made up of trillions of cells‚ which means cancer can start from almost anywhere in the body. Human cells grow and divide to form new cells continuously. When cells grow old or become damaged they die and new cells are formed to take their place. This process
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WE ALL WALK IN DIFFERENT SHOES “We all walk in different shoes”‚ is the motto of an ad that is used for baldisbeautiful.org & KennethCole.com of Sharon Blynn writer‚ actor and founder of Bald is Beautiful.org and it is also an advertisement for Kenneth Cole (American clothing designer) clothing line. The advertisement for both the clothing line and the bald is beautiful.org was in Sunday papers in 2008. American clothing designer Kenneth Cole uses his socially conscious advertising to challenge
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in adults with a high degree of morbidity and mortality and accounts for about 15% of all intracranial tumors in adults ages 40–75(2‚ 3) Incidence rates of glioma in The United States yearly is about 5 in 100‚000 persons (4) Despite progress in chemotherapy‚ radiation oncology and surgical the prognosis of this cancer remains extremely poor (7-9) On the other hand‚ Their anatomical localization‚ the penetration of the enviroment normal brain parenchyma
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