Posted on June 25, 2009 with No Comments
Once we put ourselves in to drug addiction, it will take a long road to recover ourselves and lose from your addiction. However, if you have made up your mind and have chosen to end your addiction, you can always get some help. Even though your family has been supportive on this problem, but you still need to enter the rehabilitation center. Some of the treatments for your addiction require professional help. If you have decided to end your addiction, it is the right time for you to start looking on the drug rehabilitation and facility to help your recovery.
Posted on June 25, 2009 with No Comments
Various anticancer drugs are used nowadays to treat breast cancer.
Antimetabolites are drugs that act as “dummy” building blocks and are incorporated into the cells’ DNA. When cells get ready to divide, a defect occurs in the process and causes them to die. Examples of this class of drugs used for breast cancer treatment are 5 fluorouracfil (5-FU) and methotrexate. 5-FU is a “false” building block for nucleic acids that are part of the genetic structure in the nucleus of the cell. 5-FU is a fluoropyrimidine carbamate class of drug. A new fluoropyrimidine drug has recently been developed known as capecitabine (brand name: Xeloda). This drug can be administered orally and requires an intracellular enzyme to convert it to its active form. Breast cancer cells contain an abundant amount of this enzyme than normal cells, giving capecitabine a selective advantage in destroying cancer cells over normal cells. Capecitabine is presently going through testing process and is not used in the adjuvant setting at present but may be available in the future. The other drug, methotrexate acts by inhibiting an enzyme that is important in providing a building block for DNA. The vitamin folic acid can antagonize this drug action, so this vitamin should while a cancer patient is on methotrexate.
Alkylating agents affect cancer cells in the same manner as radiation. Cyclophosphamide (Cytoxan) is the most commonly used drug of this class. It is usually administered intravenously but can also be given orally on a daily basis. The intravenous form of the drug does not usually cause hair loss (alopecia), but the oral form may. This drug is very effective and is part of most regimens used for cancer adjuvant chemotherapy.
Antineoplastic antibiotics are different from antibiotics used to treat infection in the sense that they are potent inhibitors of DNA replication. The most commonly used drug of this class in breast cancer therapy is doxorubicin (Adriamycin). Adriamycin is extremely active with breast cancer. A related drug, known as metoxantrone (Novantrone) is less frequently. Mitomycin, another drug in this class, is active with breast cancer but is not usually used in adjuvant regimens.
Posted on June 14, 2009 with No Comments
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Posted on June 13, 2009 with No Comments
Colon cancer is one of the worst and most irritating cancers that you may hurt from. This is because it can be tough to discover it in its early level and even harder to keep it from gravely wounding someone’s body. However, there are distinct treatments that are used to help keep it from distributing to essential organs in the body.
Chemotherapy is the more frequent treatment employed to care for colon cancer. During this therapy physicians will settle on what kind of medicines that might be employed to help kill off the cancer cells and to maintain it from distributing. There are many several distinct medicines that can be employed - but only your physician will recognise which ones to utilize.
Adrucil
This is a type of medication that is used to keep the cancer cells from growing. This is employed to address not simply colon cancer - but likewise breast, rectum, stomach, and head cancers.
Camptosar
This is a commonly used drug that is given during chemotherapy for colon cancer and lung and ovarian cancer. There are some physicians that will allow the patient to take it on their own or who will prescribe it to them with other medicines for chemotherapy.
Eloxatin