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Chemotherapy disrupts the development of fast-growing cancer cells, but can also affect some healthy cells. Before you apply chemotherapy to treat cancer, many basic tests are performed to evaluate the functioning of the heart, kidneys, lungs, eyes, ears and organs prior to treatment. Certain types of chemotherapy can affect the functioning of these organs during treatment or months or years after treatment. Some treatments can affect fertility. There are other potential side effects, among which include: …read the rest of this entry»
Chemotherapy can be administered:
As a pill to swallow.
As an injection into the muscle or fat tissue.
Intravenously (directly into the bloodstream).
Intrathecally, with a lumbar puncture (to treat cancer cells in the cerebrospinal fluid).
Chemotherapy is the use of anticancer drugs to treat cancerous cells. Chemotherapy has been used for many years and is one of the most common treatments for cancer. In most cases, chemotherapy works by interfering with the capacity for growth or reproduction of cancer cells. Different groups of drugs work in different ways to fight cancer cells. Chemotherapy may be used alone to treat some types of cancer or in combination with other treatments such as radiation or surgery. Often using a combination of chemotherapy drugs to fight a specific cancer. Certain chemotherapy drugs are administered in a specific order depending on the type of cancer being treated. …read the rest of this entry»
Cognitive deficits associated with cancer treatment can have a dramatic effect on patients’ quality of life and have been recognized as a problem by the President’s Cancer Panel (1999) and the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship as a challenge facing people with cancer. The present application is an extension of work completed by researchers at Dartmouth with a supplement from the Office of Cancer Survivors to the Norris Cotton Cancer Center Core grant entitled “Cognitive Impact of Systemic Chemotherapy in Long-Term Survivors of Breast Cancer and Lymphoma.” Survivors who were greater than 5 years post-diagnosis and disease free were administered a battery of standardized neuropsychological and psychological tests. …read the rest of this entry»
