Chemo
>> Joan: My name is Joanie, and I'm from Wilmington, and I feel very fortunate to be standing here today. Last fall, I went to the doctor concerned about my shortness of breath....
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Hi! My name is stephanie Deasy. I am from Lynchburg Virginia. I'm 42 years old uh... 41 actually, I'll be 42 years old. I'm a mother of two. And um... I was diagnosed with...
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Dr. David S. Hanson>>> Let us talk for a few minutes about what it is like to be a patient with an advanced lung cancer problem. Most patients with advanced lung cancer will have...
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Colon cancer under the age of 40 is not that common. If we see a patient who is in their 40s or under the age of 40 that sends off alarms and we really want to get a good family history to see if...
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Some of the chemotherapy regimens that we use for patients with colon cancer require them to receive chemotherapy over the period of two or three days at the time and that is where the role of...
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Now days almost every patient with cancer will like to know about supplements, vitamins and alternative therapies. So let's talk about that. When I meet with a patient and the question comes...
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>>> DR. DAVID MARGILETH: Late toxicities of chemotherapy are a major issue and we obviously want to maximize the cure rate but minimize late toxicity. In some situations that’s...
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>>>Dr. Margileth: One of the more common chemotherapies that we give for HER2 positive cancer is a regimen known as TCH. That consists of Taxotere, Carboplatin and Herceptin. Two...
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>>>Dr. Margileth: One of the more modern approaches to breast cancer is to try to do reconstruction either at the time of the primary surgery or shortly thereafter. In a case of...
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Chemotherapy is an intense and quite often prolonged treatment. So, let's talk about some of the things that patients can do to stay healthy during that period of time. Some of the things that...
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