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Types of Chemotherapy

Rice Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy is a process of using various drugs to treat the cancer. One of the treatments used is called Rice Chemotherapy. This process includes using Ifosfamide in a 4,000 mg dosage for one day, with Mesna in an 800 mg dosage 1 hour prior to the Ifosfamide and 2 hours after the Ifosfamide followed by [...]

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Ice Chemotherapy

ICE chemotherapy is a treatment used for non-Hodgkin-lymphoma. The name is derived from the drugs used in this particular type of chemotherapy. The drugs are Ifosfamide, Cisplatin, and Etoposide. The ICE chemotherapy is performed at the hospital after the patient has blood work done to verify the count of blood cells and before any other [...]

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CMF Chemotherapy

One of the treatments for breast cancer is called CMF chemotherapy. The name is derived from the drugs used in the treatment, which are cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil also called 5FU. CMF chemotherapy is an outpatient procedure performed after verifying the blood count of the patient. The blood work can be done days before the [...]

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AC Chemotherapy

AC chemotherapy is a type of chemotherapy that’s usually selected for breast cancer treatment . The name is derived from the drugs used in the process. Adriamycin (now called doxorubicin) and cyclophosphamide are the two drugs used in this process.
AC chemotherapy is given as an outpatient process. Prior to the treatment, there’ll be a blood [...]

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ABVD Chemotherapy

ABCD chemotherapy is another name for the drugs used to treat cancer. The drugs used are Adriamycin now called doxorubicin, bleomycin, vinblastine, and dacarbazine. The process used for this type of chemotherapy is outpatient yet this is to be determined by the attending physician as everyone responds differently to the treatments.
The treatment consists of having [...]

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Prostate Cancer Chemotherapy

Prostate cancer is serious and it develops in the male reproductive system or prostate gland. The most common treatment for this type of cancer is chemotherapy. The prostate is part of the male reproductive organ which makes and stores seminal fluid. In a typical adult male, the prostate is three centimeters long and weighs roughly [...]

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Leukemia Chemotherapy

Treating leukemia with chemotherapy
Leukemia is a cancer of the bone marrow and blood characterized by an abnormal replication of white blood cells or leukocytes. The term Leukemia covers a broad spectrum of diseases. Almost all types of this condition are treated with chemotherapy.
Types of Leukemia
Leukemia can be divided into several large groups or [...]

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Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy

What is Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is a type of chemotherapy prescribed to patients in order to shrink a cancer prior to surgery. Chemotherapy is actually a term which covers a wide variety of chemical treatments used to curb the spread of rapidly dividing cells in the body. Several medical terms referring to courses of chemotherapy [...]

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Lymphoma Chemotherapy

What is Lymphoma Chemotherapy
Lymphoma comes about when a type of white blood cell called a lymphocyte undergoes a change and begins to multiply crowding out normal cells. This creates tumors that enlarge the lymph nodes.
Lymphoma is often discovered by the enlargement of lymph node. Closely related to lymphoid leukemia this type of cancer starts [...]

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Adjuvant chemotherapy

Adjuvant chemotherapy
Adjuvant chemotherapy is one of the cancer treatment strategies to eliminate distant micro metastases that take place beyond the primary tumor site. Over the years adjuvant chemotherapy improved to the extent where cancer patients have benefited from it significantly. Especially those with cancers like breast cancer, testicular cancer, ovarian cancer. In addition to primary [...]

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