Tag: Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is a common type of cancer treatment that uses drugs or medications to treat many types of cancer. It works by targeting and eliminating rapidly dividing cancer cells in the body.
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Essay on Leukemia
Nursing Essays
Leukemia is a common cancer of the bone marrow. In the United States it occurs mostly in the young and elderly and is associated with down syndrome. This research will go over the back-ground information on leukemia, types of leukemia, demographic, genetic links, and treatment for each types of leukemia....
Last modified: 25th Jun 2021
Patient with Breast Cancer on Adjuvant Chemotherapy: Development of Neutropenic Sepsis
Nursing Case Studies
Introduction The case study to follow will be based on a 41-year-old female with Breast Cancer (Appendix 1, The Case). The patient commenced first cycle Epirubicin/Cyclophosphamide (EC). 7 days post ...
Last modified: 14th May 2020
The possible complications and side effects of chemotherapy
Nursing Essays
Introduction. “Chemotherapy is a common type of cancer treatment that uses drugs or medications to treat many types of cancer. It works by targeting and eliminating rapidly dividing cancer cells...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Side Effects And Complications Of Chemotherapy
Nursing Essays
Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with the use of antineoplastic agents. It aims to attack fast-growing cancer cells in order to slow down or reverse the spread of cancer. It is used in the trea...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Pathophysiology of breast cancer
Nursing Essays
Cancer is a process in which normal cells go through stages that eventually change them to abnormal cells that multiply out of control. Breast cancer is a malignant growth that begins in the tissue o...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
History of Chemotherapy and Cancer Treatment Research
Nursing Essays
An Early Victory A few doors from Freireich’s office at the NCI, Min Chiu Li and Roy Hertz had been studying choriocarcinoma, a cancer of the placenta, which often metastasizes rapidly into th...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020
Lung Cancer: History, Causes, Types and Treatments
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Lung Cancer Introduction Lung cancer is a kind of cancer that begins in the lungs. Lungs are the spongy organs in the chest that are responsible for taking in oxygen when one inhales and releases car...
Last modified: 11th Feb 2020