Articles About Chemotherapy

1. How Blood Test Results Can Affect Chemotherapy

   Article - Blood test results and chemotherapy. When undergoing chemotherapy, a lot hinges on the blood test results that precede each chemotherapy session.

2. Neuropathy and Chemotherapy: What You Can Do

   Article - Chemotherapy can cause neuropathy, the medical term for nerve damage. Here's what you can do to prevent and minimize neuropathy and nerve damage.

3. 12 Ways to Cope With "Chemo Brain"

   Article - Strategies for helping someone who's being treated for cancer with issues of memory, concentration, and organization.

4. Making the Decision to Have Chemotherapy to Treat Lung Cancer

   Article - Your doctor may suggest chemotherapy to treat lung cancer for any of the following situations:

5. Chemotherapy for Liver Cancer

6. Understanding Low White Blood Cell Counts

   Article - White blood cells are the body's best defensive weapons in the fight against germs and disease, so when white blood cell counts drop as a result of chemotherapy, radiation treatment, or certain types of cancer, it puts the patient in a vulnerable position...

7. Coping With Hair Loss From Cancer Treatment

   Article - Hair loss from cancer treatment is a difficult issue for many patients. This article offers guidance to help them cope.

8. Managing Treatment for Low Platelets

   Article - Low platelets or thrombocytopenia is a common side effect of chemotherapy or radiation. Learn how to effectively manage low platelet treatment.

9. Managing Low Red Blood Counts

   Article - How to help someone cope with fatigue, weakness, dizziness, and other symptoms of anemia due to a low red blood cell count.

10. Managing Treatment for Low White Blood Cell Count

    Article - When someone's white blood cell count is low, his immune system isn't as strong as usual and he's at increased risk of infection, a condition known as neutropenia. The lower his white blood cell count is -- and the longer it stays low -- the higher the risk that he'll get sick or contract some type of infection...

11. Cancer and Mouth Sores

    Article - Learn how cancer chemotherapy can produce mouth sores in cancer patients, and how to help prevent mouth sores for loved ones undergoing cancer treatment at Caring.com.

12. Cancer Treatment and Nausea: What You Can Do

    Article - Chemotherapy is the number one cause of nausea in cancer patients. The first step to preventing nausea is to take the threat of nausea seriously.

13. What I Wish I'd Known Before Beginning Chemotherapy

    Article - What should you expect during chemotherapy? Even doctors don't know everything. Read top tips about chemotherapy from cancer patients themselves.

14. Nausea: Helping Someone With Cancer Maintain Appetite and Weight

    Article - An action plan for helping someone with cancer boost his appetite so he can get the nutrition he needs.

15. Chemotherapy and Hair Loss: All Is Not Lost

    Article - Find out which chemotherapy drugs cause complete hair loss and how to use wigs and scarves to help you cope with chemo drug induced hair loss.

16. Understanding Cancer Treatment

    Article - Learn about the basic types of cancer treatments, including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy.

17. Treatment Options for Local Prostate Cancer

    Article - When prostate cancer is confined to the prostate or has only spread to nearby areas, it is called early-stage prostate cancer. It’s also called local prostate cancer. Your doctor may suggest one or more of these treatments if you have local prostate cancer.

18. Treatment Options for Metastatic or Advanced Prostate Cancer

    Article - When prostate cancer has spread to places in your body that aren't close to your prostate, it's called advanced prostate cancer. It's also called metastatic prostate cancer. Your doctor may suggest one or more of these treatments if you have advanced prostate cancer.

19. Making the Decision to Have Hormone Treatment for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Your doctor may recommend hormone treatment if any of these applies to you.

20. Goal of Watchful Waiting for Prostate Cancer

    Article - The goal of watchful waiting is to delay other treatment for prostate cancer until, or unless, it shows signs that it's harming you. It can be the first choice for treatment if your cancer doesn't pose a serious threat to your quality or length of life.

21. Questions to Ask About Treatment for Prostate Cancer

    Article - At first, the information you learn about treatment options may seem overwhelming. You may ease the stress by allowing yourself the time to gather as much information as possible about your disease and its treatment. That way, you can discuss the issues with your doctors, nurses, and loved ones.

22. Making the Decision to Have Cryotherapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Right now most doctors don't recommend cryotherapy as the first choice for treatment. This treatment is more difficult if you've already had a TURP procedure. Your doctor may suggest it as a salvage therapy. That means it is used after another treatment that hasn't worked...

23. Hormone Therapy For Prostate Cancer

    Article - Produced mainly in the testicles, the male hormone testosterone causes prostate cancer cells to grow. Reducing testosterone levels can make the prostate cancer shrink and become less active.

24. Prostate Cancer Treatment

    Article - There are different types of treatment for patients with prostate cancer.

25. Surgery for Prostate Cancer

    Article - The following are some of the different surgical options used to treat prostate cancer:

26. What to Know About Your Treatment Choices for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Researchers are continually finding new ways to treat prostate cancer. Men diagnosed with it now have more hope for survival than ever before.

27. Making the Decision to Have Radiation Treatment for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Your doctor may suggest radiation treatment if any of these statements is true for you.

28. Goal of Radical Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Radical prostatectomy is the name of the surgery that removes a cancerous tumor. Its goal is to cure you of cancer. It involves removing all of the following:

29. Goal of Chemotherapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. Unfortunately, the drugs also harm healthy cells. Right now chemotherapy does not cure prostate cancer. But there are drugs that ease symptoms such as bone pain. Chemotherapy can also help decrease PSA levels and reduce the amount of cancer...

30. Chemotherapy For Prostate Cancer

    Article - Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to treat cancerous cells. Specific treatment for prostate cancer will be determined by your physician based on:

31. Clinical Trials For Prostate Cancer

    Article - Clinical trials are studies, managed by government agencies, educational institutions, private not-for-profit organizations, or commercial businesses, to develop, produce, and evaluate the effectiveness of new treatments and preventive therapies for diseases.

32. The Different Ways You Can Get Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Here are some of the common ways your doctor can give you hormone therapy.

33. Making the Decision to Have Targeted Therapy for Lung Cancer

    Article - Targeted therapy uses drugs that specifically target gene changes in cells that cause cancer. These drugs work differently than typical chemotherapy drugs and have different side effects.

34. Do What You Can to Ease Side Effects of Treatment for Liver Cancer