Cancer Treatments

According to the American Cancer Society, cancer causes one in every four deaths in the United States. It is vital for patients to be knowledgeable and able to choose for themselves how they want...

There are more than 100 different types of medications used for chemotherapy, with no one certain drug designated to treat any one type of cancer. Medical professionals often treat cancers with a...

Cancer patients often receive radiation and chemo in combination. Both can cause heart complications, including weakness of the heart muscle, or cardiomyopathy, and heart attack.

Chemotherapy, or "chemo" for short, is chemical therapy used to kill cancer cells. Chemotherapy is very effectively used in treating many types of cancer but it has many side effects.

My wife discovered a lump on my back the size of a silver dollar. I couldn't see or feel it. She finally convinced me to see my primary care doctor who sped me to see an oncologist. She took...

Chemotherapy, or "chemo," refers to treatments that fight cancer with chemicals. In use since the 1950s, chemo has time and again proven its effectiveness.

Chemotherapy treatments involve introducing cancer fighting drugs into your body. These drugs move though your whole body to kill cancer cells. Each type of cancer is different and responds best...

Two well-known treatments, chemotherapy (or chemo) and radiation therapy, regularly aid people in their battle against cancer. Though they share some similarities, they are quite different. Both...

Cancer treatments vary depending on what stage your cancer has reached. If your treatment program causes you to lose your hair there are steps you need to take to care for your scalp, face and...

Treatment of a cancer patient doesn't begin and end at the doctor's office, hospital or at chemotherapy sessions. Cancer patients will need treatment in the form of tender loving care from the day...

One of the most common misunderstandings for non-cancer patients lies in the mistaken notion that all cancer treatments cause weight loss. Chemo and the varied drugs used to combat side effects...

As a cancer survivor of non-hodgkins lymphoma, I am amazed at how certain actions and comments from other people can be very offensive and just plain rude. I realize that WE as the patients and...

Left untreated, cancer will kill you. Paradoxically, many cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, are very toxic and suppress the body's immune system, leaving the patient susceptible to...

Chemotherapy treatments are supposed to attack the cancer in its various stages, and kill off cancer by shrinking tumor growth. Treatment can be done with the various cancer drugs for chemo...

Dealing with the side effects of chemo can be challenging at best. I hope some of these tips will help you and your family and friends as you embark on said journey.