Understanding Cancer
Cancer is a disease where the condition of abnormal cells grow and divide uncontrollably to invade other tissues in the body. Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the bloodstream and lymph system. The spread is called the 'metastatic' or 'metastic disease'.
Cancer is a disease where the condition of abnormal cells grow and divide uncontrollably to invade other tissues in the body. Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the bloodstream and lymph system. The spread is called the 'metastatic' or 'metastic disease'.
Cancer is not just one disease. There are over 100 different types of cancer. Main categories of cancer include:
• Carcinoma - cancer originated from the skin or tissue that surrounds internal organs.
• Sarcoma - Sarcoma
• Leukemia - cancer that begins in the blood - forming tissue such as bone marrow and causes large numbers of abnormal blood selsel production that goes into the blood.
• Lymphoma and myeloma - cancers that begin in selsel the immune system.
• Central nervous system cancers - cancers that begin in brain tissue and spinal cord.
Fatigue
Fatigue can be a very important issue in someone's life with cancer. It can affect one's feelings about himself daily and its relationship with other people, and how he continues cancer treatment. Fatigue occurs in 14% to 96% cancers patient, especially those who are undergoing cancer treatment. The symptoms in particular can be physically, psychologically and emotionally. To get effective treatment, fatigue associated with cancer and its treatment must be distinguished from fatigue due to something else.
Fatigue can be a very important issue in someone's life with cancer. It can affect one's feelings about himself daily and its relationship with other people, and how he continues cancer treatment. Fatigue occurs in 14% to 96% cancers patient, especially those who are undergoing cancer treatment. The symptoms in particular can be physically, psychologically and emotionally. To get effective treatment, fatigue associated with cancer and its treatment must be distinguished from fatigue due to something else.
Treatment to overcome fatigue
Most treatments for fatigue in cancer patients is to control symptoms and to provide emotional support for the cause of cancer-related fatigue is not known with certainty. Some of the treatment of symptoms associated with kelahan including set dose of pain medication, transfusions of red blood cells or factors triggering the growth of red blood cells, eating foods that contain iron supplements and vitamins and anti-depression and psycostimulan.
Most treatments for fatigue in cancer patients is to control symptoms and to provide emotional support for the cause of cancer-related fatigue is not known with certainty. Some of the treatment of symptoms associated with kelahan including set dose of pain medication, transfusions of red blood cells or factors triggering the growth of red blood cells, eating foods that contain iron supplements and vitamins and anti-depression and psycostimulan.
Pain
The pain of cancer can be treated effectively in most patients with cancer and those who have a family history of cancer. Despite the pain of cancer can not always be eliminated completely, but the therapy can reduce pain in most patients. Because every patient has a diagnosis, stage of disease and respond differently to pain and its treatment as well as joy and lack different, how to overcome the pain caused by cancer should be treated individually. Patients, families of patients and nurses should work just as well to overcome the patient's pain effectively.
Overcoming Pain
Overcoming the pain may improve quality of life in patients undergoing the stages of her illness. World Health Organization has developed a three step approach to pain management based on the severity of her pain:
• For mild to moderate pain, doctors can use the Step 1, ie, treat the pain by giving aspirin, acetaminophen, or nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug (NSAID). Side effects of these obatobat should be monitored, particularly those caused by NSAIDs medicines, such as the kidneys, liver and blood vessels, or problems that arise in the stomach and intestines.
• If the pain still does not decrease or even increase, your doctor may change the way of treatment to Step 2 or Step 3. Most patients with pain due to cancer will require a Step 2 or Step 3. Doctors can directly pass through the treatment of Step 1, if from the beginning has been known that patients perceived pain is moderate or severe stage.
