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Topic: Chemotherapy

Related:
  Cancer Chemotherapy    Chemotherapy drugs  
  Chemotherapy for breast cancer    Side effects of chemotherapy  
  Fever during chemotherapy  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Smallpox vaccine,  Mobile phone
Personality:Easily addicted
Currently has on their coffee table:New Scientist
Favorite activity(s):Taking drugs
Favorite body part(s):Skin,  Lungs,  Heart
Interest(s):Biology,  Physics
Favorite great thinker(s):Marie Curie,  Stephen Hawking
Medical note(s):Undergoing therapy,  Has cancer,  Infected with HIV
Worst habit(s):Smoking Marijuana,  Taking Ecstasy
Favorite quote(s):"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Woody Allen (1935-)
 
 
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Albert Graham,
Backyard Pool Drainer

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy used to destroy cancer cells often result in several unwanted toxicities that may adversely affect healthy tissue.
Fludarabine is a chemotherapy drug that tries to slow down the progression of the disease by stopping the cancer cells multiplying.
Chemotherapy and/or Radiation therapy can lead to complications with the teeth and mouth tissue.
Tony Howell,
Skateboarder

Chemotherapy is the use of powerful anti-cancer drugs that are carried through the body in the bloodstream and may be taken by mouth or injection into a vein.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Chemotherapy is being studied in clinical trials as a means of delaying, modifying or eliminating the need for radiation therapy in younger patients, as well as for use prior to or during radiation therapy.
Chemotherapy is being studied in clinical trials as a means of delaying or eliminating the need for radiation therapy in younger patients, as well as for use prior to or during radiation therapy.
Effective induction chemotherapy and adjuvant neutron radiation therapy could potentially improve both local and systemic control and impact survival.
David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist

Chemotherapy and/or radiation can kill many of the cancer cells which remain after the surgery is done but again, neither chemotherapy nor radiation has much of a chance of killing all of the mesothelioma cancer cells.
Chemotherapy and radiation treatments can damage a healthy immune system while killing the cancerous cells.
Chemotherapy treatment for patients with early breast cancer that has spread to lymph nodes.
Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate

Chemotherapy and radiation cause significant increases in cellular damage and increased levels of free radicals.
Chemotherapy was then given to shrink the tumor and prevent further spread of the cancer.
 
 
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