Furthermore, different stages of cancer will be treated with different methods and therapies. Most and many cancers will develop abnormal tumors. Killing the cancer cells and isolating the tumor will be ideal for preventing the spreading of the disease throughout the body. In Hong Kong, there are two main ways to treat cancer; Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy. Radiotherapy can be done mainly with two machines.
Chemotherapy kills cancer cells with anticancer drugs. The ways chemotherapy can be transmitted are: IV, injection, by mouth, through a port, or a catheter. Homeopathic therapy is a system for treating cancer based on doses of a drug that in huge amounts produces symptoms in a hearty individual alike to those of the illness itself. Many factors differentiate these two treatments. Such factors are: cost, side effects, effectiveness, and moral/beliefs.
Instead medical researchers have developed targeted chemotherapy to better treat cancer without damaging healthy sections of the body. These methods include isolated infusion and targeted delivery mechanisms. Because scientists often call these molecules “molecular targets”, targeted cancer therapies are sometimes called molecularly targeted drugs (Avendano, C). Although controversial because of the
This type of cancer begins in the lungs and is divided into three main types; non-small cell, small cell and lung carcinoid tumor (American Cancer Society, 2012). Understanding what type of lung cancer a patient has is important as this will have an impact on treatment and prognosis. Proper diagnosis also involves staging; stage is used by the health care team to determine the extent of disease within the patient’s body. Lung cancer treatment will vary based on type and stage. Common treatments include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and targeted therapies (American Cancer Society, 2012).
Chemotherapy exploits the uncontrolled growth characteristics of cancer cells to target them for death. Chemotherapeutic drugs act against both extremely rapidly replicating cancer cells as well as other normal cells in the body that are also replicating. Cells of the
It appears as a firm, red nodule, or a flat lesion with a scaly, crusted surface. There is many ways to treat a Basal cell carcinoma with a good chance of success of 90% or more. The doctor’s main goal is to remove or destroy the cancer completely with as small a scar as possible. The doctor considers location, size, risk of scarring, and the person’s age, general health, and medical history. In conclusion I did my research paper on skin cancer.
THE IMPACT OF THE AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE ON CANCER Name: Jacqueline Oteng Professor: C. McMillian Class: Interpersonal comm. 1402 Date: 4/21/14 Abstract This paper is written to analyze the effect of the Affordable care act popularly on cancer. In this paper, the study was carefully sustain evidence were collected from other related sources to come into conclusion of how health care would benefit cancer patient. It purpose was to give the victims an affordable and universal health coverage which will also stop insurance companies from denying coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, or deciding not to cover people with high cost diseases and so on. Cancer, however, would be reduced by implementing the preventive measures of the health care people suffering from the disease could also afford to treat it without going broke.
In the case study 1 ”Controversial Transplant a Success,” Steve Karnowski writes about the case of a 6 year old girl, Molly, who suffered from a genetic disorder that is seldom seen, called Fanconi anemia, which interrupts the body from manufacturing bone marrow and that would lead to her death. In order to solve that problem, her parents thought about the embryos research and decided to pursue that option. After that decision, the doctor fertilized 12 eggs from Lisa, Molly’s mother, and tested 10 of the embryos, froze eight of them, and discarded one embryo that tested positive for the disease. Then, the doctor selected one of the embryos, who they named Adam and who was genetically
Medical Ethics of Active Euthanasia Abstract This paper explains what active euthanasia is and how it ethically has an effect on the practice of medicine. As time passes there are increasing numbers of terminally ill cases, such as cancer or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. These patients endure physical symptoms other than pain often contributes to suffering near the end of lift. Most physicians and their patients strive to for cures. However, there are some patients who give up and opt to end their life by way of active euthanasia.
There are many effects that are associated with water contamination that can be fatal to humans, depending on the water’s pollution and area. One of the biggest effects that has been noticed is cancer. Going back to Camp Lejeune, people regularly drank the water, bathed and swam in it, and inhaled its vapors. Years later, and after quite a bit of research, people that lived aboard Camp Lejeune between the 1950s-1980s have a high chance of suffering from leukemia and possibly birth defects (Beamish). For example, Jerry Ensminger’s daughter who died at the age of just nine years old from leukemia believed to be caused by the extreme contamination of Camp Lejeune’s water.