The lights are bright and the air is warm as the doctor walks in. As she sits down, her expression quite worrying, the room suddenly feels cold and imprisoning. As she begins to explain the results of the mammogram, the feeling worsens. The patient feels a sudden wave of nausea as the doctor tells her how there is a tumor growing in her left breast. This scenario plays out for too many women and men in the United States and worldwide. Thankfully though, due to much advancement in the technology of chemotherapy, patients suffering from breast cancer have been benefited greatly.
There have been very many developments in chemotherapy since its creation in the early 20th century and those developments have helped doctors to be able to better treat breast cancer. Developments would include things such as what kind of drugs doctors use, how long to administer this life saving chemotherapy, and more specifically how to administer these drugs and make sure they get to their desired target. In fact, in recent years a lot of focus has been put onto precision. Researchers at UC Irvine have discovered a way to help direct the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin to its desired target by developing amino acid sequences that react only to special carbohydrates in tumor cells (Liu). This breakthrough discovery was something totally unseen in the field before. Previously, doctors would have to be very careful as to where they applied certain drugs such as doxorubicin because of how harmful they could be to other parts of the body. Now that researches have discovered a way to make the drug only react to certain polysaccharides found in tumors, doctors don’t have to worry as much about harming other tissues or organs surrounding the tumor and can focus ...
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...hemotherapy and others, many more people would have succumbed to diseases such as breast cancer. Chemotherapy development has played a key role in benefiting chemotherapy patients around the world.
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...ied. This is the reason there is a need for funding for more research: everyone who has cancer deserves to receive all the possible treatments there are for the type of cancer they have.
Breast cancer is most commonly diagnosed in Stage I and Stage II, where the size of the tumor is less than five centimeters in diameter. In these situations, surgery is often the second treatment option after chemotherapy and radiation therapy, both of which are used to shrink the tumor to a manageable size first. If the patient chooses to, the ...
About 12% of women in the United States will develop breast cancer in their lifetime, more than any other type of cancer (www.breastcancer.org, 2015). Many people lack the knowledge of how breast cancer is developed. Some people think they will not get cancer because they do not smoke cigarettes, but this is not the only cause of cancer developing in the breast. Anyone can get cancer. Everyone is potentially at risk for developing some form of Cancer (American Cancer Society, 2015).
Breast cancer is a disease that is frightening and can be harmful to many people, however as more time passes more is known. The thirty percent decrease in death due to breast cancer is tremendous and it is just a start. By understanding the prevention, treatment, symptoms breast cancer is a disease that can be beat.
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In today’s society, one of the main diseases affecting women is breast cancer. Cancer is defined as disease in which abnormal cells divide without control and are able to invade other tissues (“What is Cancer?”). Breast cancer is most often caused by either a woman’s genetics or through the influence of lifestyle choices. Breast cancer remains one of the major concerns in the medical field, mainly because it has many forms and happens to strike a large number of women. However, over the last few decades, diagnosing and treating breast cancer has rapidly evolved and improved. As of 2013, there are more than 2.8 million breast cancer survivors in the United States (“What Are the Key…”).
It's not just surgery that can hurt you chemotherapy kills healthy cells along with cancer cells and it also can infect healthy cells. Chemotherapy has killed more than it has helped! Many doctors have admitted to giving chemotherapy even though they didn't need it . even simple medicines or pills have side effects that completely out bad the good and some are only bad and cause more conditions and ninety-eight percent of regular cancer drugs fail really bad as well as almost assured to make cancer patients sicker and make them spend money on those
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Patients who get the cancer removed and take care of themselves after, for example, by exercising and eating healthy, will live longer. There are many risks that increase the likelihood of developing breast cancer, for instance, age, family history, and race. A woman who made history with breast cancer was Betty Ford, Betty was one of the first lady’s to speak openly about her disease. Betty encouraged women who have been affected by the disease to go to their doctor as soon as possible and told women who had shared that they didn’t have breast cancer to do self breast exams regularly and get mammograms. She also said when women get diagnosed with it, don’t be embarrassed.
In the beginning of the 20th century, scientists were experimenting with a wide range of chemicals to develop a method that may affect several diseases in hopes of producing a cure. A German chemist, Paul Ehrlich, who was experimenting treatments of syphilis with chemical methods, created the term “chemotherapy” (Bonander, 2011). It wasn’t until 1943 when the United State’s secret chemical weapon program discovered that nitrogen mustard, also know...