The word
"chemo" is a shortened form of the term chemotherapy. It refers to a type of medical treatment that uses drugs or chemicals to destroy or slow down the growth of cancer cells in the body.
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Princess is a maltese, she is currently on her 4th week
of chemo treatment and seems to be responding well.
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I have questions about avoiding the side effects of
chemo drugs.
«We're taking medication and we were in
chemo for that, but I'm doing OK.»
I'm going
through Chemo therapy now, and in the depths of my pain and the worst that the chemicals can do to me, I wandered about my house crying before the photos of my children, my long dead parents, and my sweet wife.
I feel guilty that I listened to her doctor and let her eat sugar - filled food
during chemo treatments, because I now know that cancer thrives on sugar.
I
did chemo from week 29 to week 34 and then recovered for a few weeks.
Also, my daughter was formula fed because I started
CHEMO THERAPY after she was born.
I have lingering nerve damage
from chemo treatments I received while I was battling Hodgkin's Lymphoma, and I've found Keto to be the ONE thing that actually stops the pain in it's tracks.
We highly recommend it for dogs with significant risk factors: a «snub - nose» anatomy (snub - nose breeds are very susceptible to respiratory infections, have a higher mortality rate, and have a harder time clearing the disease), heart and / or pulmonary disease (such as dogs with congestive heart failure, a history of heartworm infestation, etc), suppressed immune systems (such as
after chemo therapy), and competition dogs (show dogs, performance dogs, search & rescue dogs, etc).
And, oh, by the way, dogs
on chemo don't lose their hair.
I
start chemo on Friday to see if I respond to it and if the tumor will shrink.
As next steps, Dr. Winocur will investigate these effects in cancer survivors who complain of
chemo brain following chemotherapy.
Since surgeons began to apply the Anderson Algorithm, the rate of complete resection for patients who have surgery first has gone from around 20 percent to 88 percent, and for those
receiving chemo first it has improved from 60 percent to 86 percent.
It involved a big time surgery (almost $ 5.000) and then a good number of
chemo sessions, visits to the hospital, etc, etc..
Three days later she was undergoing her
first chemo treatment at the JKCC.
DNA damage caused
by chemo - or radiotherapy results in the modification of p63 with phosphate groups which triggers a conformational change to the active form.
Standard chemo with radiation actually intentionally induces formation of free radicals which has a selective effect on tumors and normal tissue.
Side - effects of
chemo beads Side - effects are rare and typically local.
I'm currently going through
chemo at the moment for bowel cancer I'm down to earth I'm trying to quit smoking I don't drink or take drugs
«You have to think long and hard when you've been on
chemo so long and then you back off of it and get your life back,» Burk says.
I found I could easily fast 18 to 20 hours
into chemo and another 12 to 16 out, and I felt better.
In any case, just because
chemo works in some lab rat somewhere doesn't mean you should pick up a cigarette.
One reason to question the findings, however, is that if
pre-op chemo promotes metastasis in some patients, that might be expected to have shown up in studies of the therapy.
Four months of
chemo made my hair fall out, and one of the drugs made me temporarily lose feeling in my extremities.
I missed your original post
about chemo, but I just went back, and my heart jumped a little.
She started Dora on a low -
dose chemo protocol in order to give her the best life possible for as long as possible.
These cancer - fighting spices have powerful health benefits and were part of my daily regimen to heal cancer
without chemo.
After a three and a half hour surgery to remove all of the connective tissue in my pelvis, my fallopian tubes, my uterus, my cervix, my ovaries relocated to my abdomen to be safe from
chemo which I thankfully have not had to have, my pelvic lymph nodes removed, even the top two cm of my vagina removed, I took minimal pain relief and only medication that would not have harmful side effects on my baby, it was tough but it was worth it.
However, its use during
concurrent chemo - radiotherapy in SCLC is controversial and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) recommends against its routine use.
There are some treatment centers like Care Oncology Clinic in the UK and ChemoThermia Oncology Center in Istanbul that are using ketogenic diet and fasting along with glucose inhibitors and conventional treatment
like chemo.
Study finds age, ancestry and genetics can influence the risk of pancreatitis, a serious
chemo side effect in acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients.
She confided in us that she was a cancer survivor and recalls the very painful mouth ulcers she would get resulting from the cancer treatment (apparently conventional cancer treatment ie
chemo causes painful ulcers in the gum and cheek tissue).