Living with Cancer: Traditional Cancer Treatments
Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation are still the principle forms of cancer treatment. During surgery, physicians remove a localized cancer, cutting it away from healthy tissue. Chemotherapy that destroys cancer cells or inhibits their ability to r...
Living with Cancer: Testing New Cancer Treatments
Before any drug is approved for use by the Federal Drug Administration it must be rigorously tested, not only in the laboratory but with patients. Today most children with cancer and young men with testicular cancer are being cured with new drugs th...
Living with Cancer: General Medical Care for Cancer Patients
Dr. John Glaspy dispenses advice that he calls the "obvious." Not all cancers need treatment, at least immediately. Attention to the management of pain and fatigue, and maintaining quality of life are important considerations. Treating low blood oxy...
Living with Cancer: Breast Cancer Prevention Trial, The
The Breast Cancer Prevention Trial, the first of its kind in the United States, was designed to see whether the drug tamoxifen prevents breast cancer in women who are at high risk of developing the disease. The 13,000 women who participated in the s...
Living with Cancer: Cancer Treatment: Informed Decisions
In recent years, cancer has become more of a chronic illness, with people living with the disease over a long period of time. The various forms of treatment now available become integrated with their lives. The extensive research and testing that ha...
Living with Cancer: Cancer: A Family Disease
Cancer is a family disease. It is rare for patients to keep the diagnosis hidden, not just because they need someone to share their fears and concerns with, but because they will need help and support during recovery. Even young children feel the th...
Fashion Victims: Textile Toxins in a Global Industry
Social awareness may be the latest fashion trend as an increasing number of Western consumers demand eco-friendly products, created under worker-friendly conditions. But textile toxins that have been banned in Europe are still used in Asia, causing ...
Fighting Skin Cancer and Brain Tumors with New Methods
Two of the most aggressive and deadly forms of cancer may soon become the targets of powerful drugs that work in tandem with the body’s own immune system. This program explores recent research in the development of biochemical weapons to fight bra...
Understanding cancer
Daniel Verina, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC, a nurse practitioner at New York University, discusses cancer from a nursing perspective. Topics include what cancer is, its dangers, statistics regarding cancer, risk factors, cancer screening techniques, symptoms,...