I need help with a paper. Many anti cancer drugs are directed at either stabilizing or destabilizing the tubulin protein that makes up microtubules and are very effective in treating cancer.....so why the hair loss and nausea?
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The hair loss is due the chemicals killing all rapidly growing sells, not just the cancerous cells, and your hair is one of those kinds of cells, chemo is not specific for cancerous cells, just rapidly growing cells, I can't think of the name for it. As for nausea, it is b/c you are basically poisoning yourself, but for the betterment of your health.
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Vitamin B-17 is the ultimate cancer fighting therapy. Of course the government will put you in jail if you use it for your patients. It has been banned by the fda. Why? Because it cures cancer and it would eliminate a billion dollar industry.
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these treatments and antibiotics wil make you body so acidic that will happen. your body should remain alkaline so it can repair itself so check your urine or saliva for acidity. litmus paper can be bought in a roll
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It's correct that these drugs have their greatest effect on cell types which reproduce most rapidly. Hair follicle cells, and those in the lining of your gastrointestinal tract all the way from the inside of your lips to the, um, other end fall into that catagory. That being said, different protocols with the same cancer drugs can affect a person differently. I had chemo in three sets. The first set, done "IV bolus push" over five days, caused the hair loss and GI inflammation. Most unpleasant. The second and third sets (same dosage) were done weekly for six weeks, IV infusion, and there were NO side effects at all!
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Chemotherapy targets fast growing cancer cells. Most normal cells are specific to the organ and does not grow. Tumor cells are the uncontrolled growth of these cells. For some reason the signal to stop growing has been turned off in these cells . . thus the rapid growth. There are only a few other cell types in the body that grow and that includes hair cells and some cells in the gastrointestinal tract. The chemotherapy can not tell the difference between the hair cells and the cancer cells, so during chemo treatment all growing cells will die off. If the chemotherapy does its job the cancer tumors will die or shrink allowing surgery for removal. The hair will fall out, but this is only a temporary nuisance. Once chemotherapy stops the hair will grow back. Most people can tolerate the nausea caused from chemotherapy, but those who cannot can use medications to keep them comfortable. It's not pleasant, but chemotherapy is effective in killing cancer. Most chemotherapy protocols have been tested by extensive Clinical Trials and are backed by documented scientific evidence as to their benefit treating human cancers. The National Library of Medicine provides assess to millions of medical journals and documents through the years: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed
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