Types Of Chemotherapy

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Types Of Chemotherapy

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 treatments and therapeutic approaches are available, but in general lines, it is all reduced to types of chemotherapy.

Lots of solutions are possible starting from the treatment diversity, but each and every one has its challenges. Based on a certain protocol that also involves decision making as to when, how long, how often and under what circumstances the treatment should be applied, the doctor will also choose from the potential types of chemotherapy that which is mostly indicated for a particular case.

The list with the types of chemotherapy drugs is pretty long and it might turn out a bit confusing for those that have never come into contact with chemo until now. It includes alkylating agents chemotherapy, alkaloid-based treatment, anti-tumor antibiotics, antimetabolites, topoisomerase inhibitors, antineoplastics and so on. Each of the categories mentioned above may include tens of types of medication out of which the doctor should select the appropriate ones.

Out of the many types of chemotherapy treatments the doctors will choose one based on a protocol and will take into account when doing so the response rate of a certain patient to the suggested drug. These response rates are established based on research that has been done so far analyzing the treatments that have been applied and their results. For example, the response rate of a combination of drugs selected out of several types of chemotherapy may be of 70% which means that, out of 100, 70 patients with that type of tumor and the same stage of cancer have responded positively to that treatment.

The rest of 30 may not respond at all to the treatment or may have the minimally expected results which are not satisfactory from a medical point of view. In that case the doctor has to act fast and direct the patient to another of the many types of chemotherapy that might have a better effect.

All in all, the choice and application of types of chemotherapy are tricky. Doctors need to constantly monitor and administer tests to their patients in order to make the right decisions at the right time for them. This line of work requires a great deal of responsibility and carries lots of emotional burdens because someone’s life may depend only on the doctor’s decision.

1 Comments:

Blogger Maggie said...

Very informative blog I found. The information you have share is in brief. I got some more information which is also useful to know about chemotherapy i would like to share it here.
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May 31, 2012 at 2:22 AM  

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