Posts Tagged ‘chemotherapy’

Chemotherapy drugs are pretty numerous and they fall into various categories following such criteria as the way they work, the relationship they establish with other drugs and the chemical structure they have. The origin of most drugs is in herbal extracts that are afterwards processed and combined in laboratories. And, last but not least, one [...]

Cancer refers to the uncontrolled growth of cells combined with malignant behavior – invasion and metastasis. It seams that the cause of the condition is a combination of genetic predisposition and the exposure to some environmental toxins. Basically, the chemotherapy drug’s functioning principle is to impair cell division (mitosis), targeting rapidly-dividing cells. The damage they [...]

Chemotherapy drugs are pretty numerous and they fall into various categories following such criteria as the way they work, the relationship they establish with other drugs and the chemical structure they have. The origin of most drugs is in herbal extracts that are afterwards processed and combined in laboratories. And, last but not least, one [...]

As a disease cancer consists of the uncontrolled malignant cellular growth, the invasion of organs and the metastasis. It seams that the cause of the condition is a combination of genetic predisposition and the exposure to some environmental toxins. Basically, the chemotherapy drug’s functioning principle is to impair cell division (mitosis), targeting rapidly-dividing cells. The [...]

Do you realize how painful it is to watch someone dear to you ravished by the fight with cancer? And it all has to do with the perception we have of cancer and with the very intense chemotherapy medication administered to patients diagnosed with this malignant disease. All sorts of remedies and therapeutic approaches have [...]

Chemotherapy is a sort of treatment based on various combinations of drugs that are meant to reduce the growth of cancerous cells within a patient’s body. But while following this treatment or so-called therapy, the patient may have to deal with several side effects of chemotherapy.
Hair loss or alopecia makes the most visible of [...]

What is oral chemotherapy? The term refers to the way of administering chemotherapy, namely taking chemo drugs by mouth. There are multiple ways of applying the principles of chemotherapy for the treatment of various health conditions. Nowadays, oral chemotherapy is not the only option cancer patients have, as science has come up with other ways [...]