Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is not a diagnosis. Chemotherapy is a treatment

Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine do not have a position against chemotherapy. There are Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine who are oncologists and use chemotherapy in order to treat cancer patients. I hope this answers your question.

as far as i have seen in my cancer support group members, their veins remain collapsed years after chemotherapy. perhaps, there are nutritional intervention one can use but we don't know yet what.

My mom had SCL cancer at age 83 and was healthy upon finding out. She had a cough that led to testing. It was limited and she started treatment chemo and radiation. She did extremely well during the 6 mos of treatment and was in remission for over a 1 1/2 years. Sadly it did return and she died just shy of her 85 birthday. She was active, happy and symptom free up until her last 2 months. She was remarkable throughout the treatment and I believe that is why she survived two years from diagnosis. Those two years were good years and she took each day at a time and never let it stop her until the very end.

Critically Ill means that you have an illness that could drastically effect or end you life. --------------------------------- An illness that would be fatal without medical attention.

Yes. It can either be used by itself as straight chemo therapy or as an adjuvant chemo therapy.

I myself am on adjuvant chemo therapy with Cisplatin, which is a highly toxic platinum drug, in this case administered by IV. My skin is having mild reactions, my hair is falling out, and my blood counts are low, especially my hemoglobin counts, which leaves me weak, tired and out of breath.

Please provide more information/context/clarification to help us answer this question. You can post your response in this answer text by clicking "Edit."

Yes. Cesium is a live radiation souce that is used to treat a localized area. Chemo is a systemic therapy that courses through the entire body (it is not radioactive).

yes

45 milligrams

The answer to that depends on why you are on the antibiotics. Your oncologist will evaluate how sick you are, for example, do you have an infection that is bad enough to put you at significant risk if chemotherapy is given. If you are on an antibiotic for a mild upper respiratory infection it is likely that your chemo treatment can go forward. As with any decision about chemotherapy, the risk of the cancer growing versus the risk of giving the chemotherapy must be evaluated on treatment day.

It's actually only certain drugs that are part of the chemo process that cause alopecia; when I was having chemo years ago, the doctors told me which of the drugs would cause the hair loss and which wouldn't (being 13 at the time, I asked them to just leave out the hair loss ones :P)...

I'm not sure of the specifics, but from what I understood of what they told me, the hair loss was basically the result of the same kind of thing most of the side effects of chemo are the result of - the fact that the drugs kill good cells in the body as well as bad ones.

Not everyone who has chemotherapy loses all their hair, though - I lost about two-thirds of mine, but still had a decent coverage of hair on my head despite having been given the usual doses of the particular drugs that cause hair loss.

To give a chemotherapy in a patient of cirrhosis is very risky. Treating physician is the best judge in a given patient.

It is always wise to seek out licences professional for such things. Sadly there are many instances of so called medication being sold on line that is infact not what it claims to be

Cancer of the duodenum is best treated by surgical removal. A piece of the intestine containing the cancer is removed. Lymph nodes near the site of cancer are removed and checked for spread of cancer.

There may be cells of the cancer that are invisible to the surgeon that stay in the body after the surgery. These cells can grow into new tumors in months to years.

Chemotherapy given once a person has healed from surgery may keep those invisible cancer cells from growing in the future. Chemotherapy may be also be helpful if a person cannot have surgery for cancer (for example, a person's heart doctor thinks surgery would be very dangerous).

Radiation is another way to control cancer. The decision to use it depends on many factors.

coding of immunizations and chemotherapy can be found in the medicine section of the cpt book...

It is hard to answer. The best thing would be to ask your doctor or nurse. Have the Excedrin bottle with you so that the exact ingredients can be reviewed (there are different formulations.) If you are having headaches or body aches talk to your doctor so they can make sure they are taking the best care of you they can.

Chemotherapy also may be injected subcutaneously (SQ or SC), which means under the skin.

First-line cancer therapies involve chemo, radiation, and/or surgery. Second-line therapies are only tried when the first-line therapies are ineffective. Third and fourth-line therapies are only used as subsequent treatments.

yes

because of fear of infection

Vancomycin.