Chemotherapy treatments are in most cases toxic. Radiation and chemotherapy drugs attack cancer but in the process do some damage to normal cells. These comprise the major cancer chemotherapy side effects. As in most cases, these side effects of chemotherapy treatments resolve themselves soon after the completion of the treatment program. The following is our [...]

CHOP Chemotherapy is one of the most popular treatment regimens for Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma or NHL. The cocktail of drugs used in this chemotherapy regimen include the following: C – Cyclophosphamide (neosar, cytoxan); H – Adriamycin (hydroxydoxorubicin/doxorubicin); O – Vincristine (oncovin); P – Prednisone (Orasone or Deltasone) CHOP chemotherapy is also adopted as a parallel treatment [...]

The treatment done for curing the breast cancer is called as the AC Chemotherapy. It is a well recognized treatment which is famous all over the world for the people who are going through the breast cancer. This treatment has shown a lot of positive response in the past ands is still developing. The general [...]

Till now there are not many options for treating the colon cancer but the best suggested option is chemotherapy. In fact doctors also advice there patients to follow chemotherapy treatment for curing colon cancer. It is assumed that the chemotherapy is an effective treatment for curing colon cancer but only few of them help in [...]

The vomiting and nausea are some of the normal side effects of the chemotherapy treatment for curing cancer. These side effects of chemotherapy are inevitable and if you want to get rid of this, then probably you have to go through some other treatment like the vomiting and nausea treatments to prevent the side effects. [...]

Induction Chemotherapy is basically the use of the drugs treatment as the opening treatment for the patients who are in the higher stage of the cancer and can not be cured or treated by any other means to get well. Induction chemotherapy normally is supposed to be a very effective treatment for the cancer patients [...]

Adjuvant therapy is a specific kind of cancer fighting treatment that is given when it is supposed that the cancerous cell have extended outside the original area. This kind of treatment is really useful for fighting against many cancers problem like breast cancer, ovarian cancer, testicular cancer and many more. It is really very difficult [...]

The cost of chemo treatment differs with the type and doses of drugs consumed, for how long and how often they are taken and whether you consuming it at hospital, at home, in a clinic, or in office. Many health insurance policies cover the major portion of the cost associated with the chemotherapy or at [...]

An effective treatment done for a certain type of cancers is called chemotherapy. Chemotherapy includes the use of anti cancer medicines to destroy the cancerous cells in the body. In fact this treatment can also be used for non cancerous patients where the dosage are minimize which further reduces the side effects associated with it. [...]

Those women who are suffering from the ovarian cancer, the chemotherapy are suggested to them along with the surgery which purpose is to reduce the chances of the cancer to come back. Chemotherapy helps in destroying the tiny group of cancer cells that are usually left behind even after the operation. These cells are too [...]