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Chemotherapy is a word that strikes fear into most of our hearts. We've seen the movies and heard such horrible stories about undergoing this difficult treatment for a disease that could very well kill us. I underwent chemo for breast cancer and know that, in some cases, the cancer isn't hard … it isn't painful … it doesn't make us sick. That's the case for most of us who have breast cancer, but

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*Chemotherapy Gave Us A Gift of TimeBy Lorraine KemberIn December 1999, my beloved husband of 32 years was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma and given a prognosis of 3 to 9 months. He was a former Wittenoom child who at the tender age of seven lived in Wittenoom for period of seven short months. Tragically it was long enough for him to inhale the deadly blue asbestos dust that would ultimately

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*Are Obese Women Getting Short-Changed By Chemotherapy Treatments?By Naweko San-Joyz How much chemotherapy does an obese woman need? Typically an obese woman with breast cancer would receive reduced doses of chemotherapy as they battle breast cancer.Back in June of 2005, a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine concluded that obese women should receive chemotherapy based on their

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*4 Steps for You to Help Yourself During ChemotherapyBy David Saunders Chemotherapy is a word that causes dread in most who hear it. It is a time of stress as well as risk. If you, or someone you know, are facing chemotherapy, these four simple steps may help get through the process with better spirits and better results as well.1. Tell your doctor if you get side effects from treatmentYou can't

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*How to Avoid Weight Gain During ChemotherapyBy Doug GrantFor Patsy M., the cancer was bad enough.Then came the chemo and her energy level took a dramatic tumble while her once trim figure ballooned.She tried watching what she ate. Cut down on portions. Nothing helped. The weight kept climbing.When she asked her doctor she was told to exercise. It was the best answer to chemo weight-gain.This

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.What Is Chemotherapy And How Does It Work?From the American Cancer Society Chemotherapy is the use of medicines (or drugs) to treat disease. We sometimes call this type of treatment just "chemo." Although surgery and radiation therapy destroy or damage cancer cells in a specific area, chemotherapy works throughout the body. Chemotherapy drugs can destroy cancer cells that have metastasized or

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.ChemotherapyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. In its modern-day use, it refers almost exclusively to cytostatic drugs used to treat cancer.In its non-oncological use, the term may also refer to antibiotics (antibacterial chemotherapy). In that sense, the first modern chemotherapeutic agent was Paul Ehrlich's arsphenamine, an

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