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Cancer patients could be treated with any of the more than 100 chemotherapy drugs that work differently and whose effect on the body is different. The October issue of the “Mayo Clinic Health Letter” contains an eight-page special report on how to get the most benefit from chemotherapy and ways to manage side effects. Among the suggestions are the following:

Eating well: nausea and vomiting are common side effects of some chemotherapy, but not all. Also, the person may lose your appetite and reduce weight without wanting to. It is important to work with the medical team to manage these side effects and eating balanced meals when hungry.

There are medicines that prevent or treat nausea. Furthermore, studies have shown that acupuncture may also be an effective treatment for nausea. Among other tactics would be useful to take ginger pills, drinking ginger ale (ginger ale) or engage in relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing or hypnosis. (more…)

There are several types of treatment for use in breast cancer. The therapy is applied depends on many factors, which include the stage or stage where the tumor is, whether or not metastasis, the size of the cancer and how cancer cells are. With the classification made by doctors are set to tumor size, lymph node involvement and the degree of metastasis or spread to other organs, if any. The most used is the TNM system created by the American Joint Committee on Cancer. Each letter refers to a characteristic, which is defined by a number:

* T (size), followed by a number from 0 to 4 indicates the size of the tumor, the larger the cancer, the higher the number. (more…)