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Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy

(Science: pharmacology, oncology) The treatment of disease by means of chemicals that have a specific toxic effect upon the disease producing microorganisms (antibiotics) or that selectively destroy cancerous tissue (anticancer therapy).


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Facial hair

... use it,and older people as suplementation).. And I wont write a novel here lol.. But I guess that beard and hair are different,thats why chemotherapy doesnt cause falling of all body hair..

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by zami'87.
Sun Aug 23, 2009 3:36 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Facial hair
Replies: 38
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Therapeutic Regimens With Biologics

... cost may approach tens of thousands of dollars per month for some of these biologics. Furthermore, with cancer drugs, they are used together with chemotherapy for their treatment regimens in many treatment centers, so the quality of life comes into question if one considers the devastating side ...

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by quiact
Mon Mar 09, 2009 1:55 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Therapeutic Regimens With Biologics
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how stem cell tech make people live longer

... of: blood/bown marrow stem cell transplantation. In that procedure the patient's (e.g. a person who has had their own stem cells destroyed by chemotherapy or radiotherapy when treating cancer) own stem cells are replaced by HLA-matched cells from a donor, after which the stem cells establish ...

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by biohazard
Fri Oct 17, 2008 6:04 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: how stem cell tech make people live longer
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Views: 795

What is cancer?(in genral)

... of cells... certainly not all cancers proliferate exponentially... as for treatment the only cancers we have a good hope of 'curing' with chemotherapy and radiotherapy alone is testicular cancer and leukaemia... but i think it's still pretty true that surgery is the only way to cure cancer ...

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by Revenged
Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:34 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What is cancer?(in genral)
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Views: 653

Re: What is cancer?(in genral)

... could detect these mutated cells prior to the proliferation of a tumor, a person would have a better chance of being cured by treatments like chemotherapy. This is not the case however; as mutated cells are at the microscopic level, and cancer is usually undetectable until it has grown into ...

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by MichaelXY
Sun Feb 24, 2008 8:39 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What is cancer?(in genral)
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