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Why do some cancer medications sometimes weaken the immune system of cancer patients?
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∙ 11y ago
The radiation kills bone marrow, where both red and white blood cells are made. The white blood cells produce most of the immune system, with fewer white blood cells the immune system weakens.
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In what areas of a hospital must the numbers of microorganisms in the environment be strictly reduced to a minimum?
Oncology would be my guess because a cancer patients immune system is very fragile due to the strong medications and procedures they have had to go through.
What causes death in patients with AIDS?
just about any disease or infection including cancer that can attack your body with a compromised immune system. even things that are destroyed in your body from the toxicity and side effects of the medications prescribed to HIV patients. HIV meds are really hard on the liver for example.
How does the immune system respond to the throat cancer?
Cancer is somewhat confusing to the immune system since it is an aberrant form of the body's own cells which the immune system is not supposed to attack. Sometimes the immune system can detect that the cancer cell is not a normal part of the body, and therefore it will destroy the cancer, but quite often the immune system cannot detect the abnormality of the cancer cell and will ignore it. That is precisely why cancer is so dangerous.
Which is the best complementary therapy by herbs for the cancer patiets?
There are many complementary herbal therapy treatments available for cancer patients. Many utlize Echinacea which helps boost the immune system.
How to treat a person suffering from AIDS?
AIDS patients are typically on a variety of antiretroviral medications to try to suppress the HIV virus and boost the immune system. In addition, if oppportunistic infections appear, medications are used to treat those infections.
Agent that supresses the immune system?
If you're asking what medications supress the immune system, steriods supress the immune system, as do medications given to organ transplant recipients.
What would most likely elicit a response from the immune system?
Infections, cancer, foreign bodies, sometimes itself.
Can anyone get brain cancer from brain cancer patient?
No, not under any normal circumstances.No type of cancer spreads from person to person under normal conditions.The only theoretical way for it to spread would be from surgical implantation of the cancer cells between two patients and even than there is a chance the implanted cells may be destroyed by the implant patients immune system.
Why cancer patients cannot be vaccinated?
Their treatment regime can cause a depression of the immune system. A vaccine is normally a small dose of the illness. The patient would not be able to fight it.
What causes the reactivation of the virus?
It is believed that the reactivation is triggered when the immune system becomes weakened as a result of age, stress, fatigue , certain medications, chemotherapy, or diseases such as cancer or HIV.
Why are cancer patients often susceptible to disease?
Cancer cells consume lot of nutrients out of the body of the patient. The patient becomes debilitated due to cancer. His immune system is adversely affected very much. So they become susceptible to various infections and other diseases.
What medications are used in colitis treatment?
Many different medications can be used to treat Colitis. Doctors will prescribe Anti-Inflammatory drugs, along with Immune System Suppressors, and sometimes just the common antibiotic.
