Healthy Paws saved my wallet and quite possibly my Maine Coon Hunter:) Was devastated when he was diagnosed with cancer 2 months ago... and he's
needed radiation and chemotherapy - lots of tests and blood work — and there was Healthy Paws each step...
Not exact matches
Her course of
radiation may be months
and if she
needs chemotherapy it'll be much longer.
Traditional therapies for brain cancer — surgery,
chemotherapy and radiation — haven't been very successful, says Memorial Sloan Kettering's Dr. Baselga, adding, «We have a tremendous
need to develop new therapies, especially with children.»
They told her she
needed aggressive
chemotherapy and radiation to kill the cancer cells in her softball - sized tumor.
«In an earlier phase I clinical study, our group has shown that increasing the dose of
radiation delivered daily with high precision
and using image guidance may offset the
need for
chemotherapy in improving survival,
and it may also improve quality of life measures by reducing treatment periods in half.
Following surgery,
chemotherapy and radiation, average survival is still only 15 months, pointing to a critical
need for new treatments.
Summary: Intensive treatment combining
radiation and chemotherapy can control locally advanced head
and neck cancer, improve survival
and in most cases eliminate the
need for debilitating surgery.
Intensive treatment combining
radiation and chemotherapy can control locally advanced head
and neck cancer, improve survival,
and in most cases eliminate the
need for debilitating surgery, report researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center
and Northwestern University in the April 14, 2000, issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
April 13, 2000 Combined therapy improves survival for advanced head
and neck cancer Intensive treatment combining
radiation and chemotherapy can control locally advanced head
and neck cancer, improve survival
and in most cases eliminate the
need for debilitating surgery.
Patients are treated by a multi-disciplinary team that may include medical oncologists,
radiation oncologists, surgical oncologists, neuro oncologists, internal medicine, family practice
and radiology; board certified surgeons who are specialists in reconstructive, gynecologic, urologic
and neurologic surgery; nurses specially trained in cancer treatment
and certified to administer
chemotherapy, counselors, who address a full range of psychosocial
needs from diagnosis through bereavement; clergy to support all faiths; physical, occupational, speech
and nutritional therapists.
(Naturalhealth365) According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), over 12,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year
and told they
need surgery,
chemotherapy or
radiation therapy — as a common treatment.
Dr. Greger could you please address the protein
needs of individuals undergoing cancer treatment [surgery,
chemotherapy,
and radiation]?
«In that case a woman might
need chemotherapy, which involves longer period of time
and more side effects
and out - of - pocket costs than, say, the surgery
and maybe
radiation she'd
need for stage 1.»
Many cancers can be cured with surgery, some with
chemotherapy and radiation therapy,
and some
need a combination of treatments.
Or sometimes it can not be removed
and needs to be treated with
radiation and / or
chemotherapy.
Enzo continues to do well
and does not
need to be on as many pain medications, due to the success of his
radiation therapy
and chemotherapy.
Benedicte is a 40 year old woman who
needs her mother to help care for her
and her children while she in treatment with
radiation and chemotherapy for breast cancer.