Cancer Treatment Reviews

There are an estimated 12 million cancer survivors in the United States who are living beyond their doctors’ predictions, thanks to a combination of cutting-edge chemotherapy drugs, excellent treatment, and improved screening measures. However, cancer survivors face unique challenges related to their treatment after cancer and need to stay alert to possible late side effects from chemotherapy and/or radiation. It’s important to talk to your doctor about proper screening for late side effects of cancer treatment for the rest of your life. Here is a list of possible tests that you might need depending on the type of treatment you received for your cancer:

1. Regular echocardiograms. Patients who received radiation to the chest wall and/or received high doses of chemotherapy, especially with a class of drugs called anthracyclines (such as doxorubicin), should have yearly echocardiograms to check for any heart damage related to treatment.

2. Regular mammograms. If you are a survivor of childhood cancer and received high doses of radiation to the chest wall, you may need to start mammograms at an earlier age. Secondary cancers related to primary treatment are always a possibility, especially with radiation to the chest wall. Breast cancer is one of the possible secondary cancers that can develop. Discuss with your primary care physician or oncologist about the possibility of screening mammograms beginning at an earlier age. If you are a survivor of breast cancer, screening mammograms should be number one on your priority list every year.

3. Thyroid examinations. If you have received radiation to the head, neck or throat, you should be screened for thyroid-related conditions.

4. Lung function tests. If you have received radiation to the chest wall or received chemotherapy, including the drug bleomycin, you should have regular lung function tests. Although improved radiation techniques lessen the likelihood of scatter radiation to the lungs, it doesn’t completely eliminate all risk. Testing involves how much air your lungs can hold and how quickly air moves in and out of your lungs.

5. Blood and imaging tests. Computed tomography (CT scans) and blood tests (CEA titer) are useful in determining a possible secondary cancer. Often with these types of tests there can be false positives, so be sure to discuss with your family physician or oncologist the need and frequency of these tests.

Cancer survivors need to be their own advocates when it comes to determining a treatment plan for possible late side effects. A careful review of the type of cancer you had in the past and the treatment you received will help you and your healthcare team to come up with the best possible survival treatment plan for the future. The most important part of being a cancer survivor is maintaining follow-up care, so you can continue to enjoy an active, prosperous, and healthy lifestyle.

Hair-loss often occurs as a side effect due to cancer and its treatment. They can be quite emotionally distressing and lose your self-esteem. By proper understanding and preparation, this can be conquered and tolerated.

Hair-loss occurs when hair falls out from the follicles that are present in the pores of skin. Usually when they fall off new ones are replaced in its place. If any sort of damage happens to the follicles, then hair growth can be stopped either temporarily or permanently. Usually cancer does not lead to follicle damage or hair loss. Its treatments often lead to hair loss.

The cancer treatments that lead to hair-loss are chemotherapy and radiations. In chemotherapy, very powerful and strong drugs are heavily pumped into the body to act against the cancer cells. These drugs have many side effects. They lead to the destruction of healthy hair cells and follicles. In radiation treatment, high energy rays are used to destroy the cancer cells, by focusing the rays upon them. It causes hair loss when the rays are used for the treatment of cancer cells on the scalp of head or the follicles.

The amount of hair lost due to these treatments can vary from person to person. It depends upon the intensity of treatment. In certain cases hair loss is a sudden reaction while in certain others it’ll take time. In some cases hair from both the head and scalp is lost. In some other cases, hair of the head might be lost completely while in some other cases can be in patches. In chemotherapy hair loss begins after 2-3 weeks of the commencement of treatment. In radiation treatment, hair loss begins after the 1st treatment itself.

The lost hair due to chemotherapy is replaced by new ones before the termination of therapy. But in radiation new hair growth is usually seen only after 6-10 months after the termination of treatment. Whatever be the case, it is important to take things in the right way, as the side effects due to cancer treatments are difficult to restrain. It can only be conquered by the right attitude and treatment.

Essiac Tea is a herbal based preparation that has been promoted as a cure against cancer. Most of essiac tea reviews received in respect of the product have received a reasonable amount of definiteness, and hence a generic line of products having the name of essiac tea are being marketed in various places under various names and prices.

Essiac tea as formulated and used by Rene Essiac as a cure for Cancer for over 60 years and during her life time, she has been using essiac tea preparations to remove the side effects of the Cancer treatment and later on, it was used for the treatment of cancer itself.

Various Essiac tea reviews received later when the essiac tea was manufactured as a commercial product, and marketed as an alternative medicine for Cancer has not found favor with the clinical tests that were conducted on pure scientific considerations. But, the original recipe used by Rene Cassie was used by her in her clinic for more than 60 years and during all these time she has been using the same formula to treat the cancer patients.

Essiac Tea as used by Rene was subjected to favorable essiac tea reviews and some of her patients reported that her esssiac tea preparation had cured them miraculously of cancer. But, at the same time, some other essiac tea reviews stated that though their cancer was not fully cured by the essiac tea, the pain and agony due to the cancer was relieved and their life was made bearable only due to the use of Essiac tea.

The essiac tea that was used by Rene Cassie was taken over by a Company called Resperin, which received all the rights to the product after Rene Cassie died in 1978. But, the product manufactured and marketed by Resperin was rejected by the Public on the ground of poor essiac tea reviews stating that the essaic tea is very poor in quality and the same was not of the same formula as used by Rene Cassie.

Then other Companies began manufacturing the essiac Tea and marketed them in different names and some of them were nice, and the essiac tea reviews received by them were so good that the essiac tea is well received in the Market, and today is being used as an alternative medicinal product having the powers to cure cancerous cells in the human body, besides giving a general boosting to the body’s immune system. Continue Reading