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Hazardous drugs are often used for patients with cancer. [2] For example, chemotherapy agents are routinely used in the treatment of cancer. However, chemotherapy can be dangerous to a person even if they don't have cancer, as chemotherapy often indiscriminately affects both healthy and cancerous cells. [3]
This is a non-exhaustive list of alternative treatments that have been promoted to treat or prevent cancer in humans but which lack scientific and medical evidence of effectiveness. In many cases, there is scientific evidence that the alleged treatments are not effective, and in some cases, may even be harmful.
1.11 Miscellaneous others: Altretamine: PO: Unclear, reactive intermediates covalently bind to microsomal proteins and DNA, possibly causing DNA damage: Recurrent ovarian cancer: Myelosuppression, peripheral neuropathy, seizures and hepatotoxicity (rare). Bleomycin: IM, SC, IA, IV or IP
A person's adjustment to cancer depends vitally on the support of their family and other informal carers, but pain can seriously disrupt such interpersonal relationships, so people with cancer and therapists should consider involving family and other informal carers in expert, quality-controlled psychosocial therapeutic interventions. [32]
A 2015 Cochrane review found unclear usefulness for cancer pain, [44] though other reviews have found tentative evidence of benefit. [45] [46] It is of unclear effect in hot flashes in people with breast cancer. [47] The effects of aromatherapy are unclear with no peer-reviewed research in regards to cancer treatment. [48]
Chemotherapy interferes with cell division, which particularly affects rapidly dividing cells like those of the gastrointestinal mucosa and immune cells. Irritation of the GI mucosa by chemotherapy, radiation, distention, or acute infectious gastroenteritis activates the 5-HT 3 receptors of these inputs. [4]
An estimated 650,000 people receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy every year. New developments are underway by medical technology firms and researchers that have the potential to improve the ...
This is a list of chemotherapeutic agents, also known as cytotoxic agents or cytostatic drugs, that are known to be of use in chemotherapy for cancer.This list is organized by type of agent, although the subsections are not necessarily definitive and are subject to revision.