Be prepared for chemotherapy protocol
by: Dr. Bill Ackart on Fri, 1 May 2009 at: 7:34 AM Go to: Previous Article Next Article
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Chemotherapy protocol is a concept familiar to cancer patients, but it remains totally unknown to people who do not have any direct or indirect contact with the disease. The chemotherapy protocol consists of all the procedures and medicine specificity, the expected results, the potential threats and the side effects related to the medication. This protocol is to be used as a sort of guide or reference throughout the prescribed treatment.
If going into details, the chemotherapy protocol should present the prescription circumstances, from the pathology of the disease to the location of the tumor and its stage of evolution. It should also include indications and contraindications, it should pinpoint all the situations in which this specific chemotherapy protocol should be allowed or forbidden and it ought to refer to scientific sources that may be consulted during the treatment.
Another important part of the chemotherapy protocol comes in the form of drug information: all medication has to be described specifically. Drug information means dosage first and foremost, since the medicine concentration is influenced by the tumor size and the patient's body weight and medical history. Other details in the chemotherapy protocol include info on cyclical administration and the time interval between doses. Moreover, the chemotherapy protocol should specify how the drug is to be administered, that is, the route of administration, as doctors refer to it (oral, intravenous, abdominal, etc). In some cases adjuvant treatment may be required which represents another piece of information that has to be specified in the chemotherapy protocol together with possible precautions and measures.
Last but not least, the chemotherapy protocol needs to tackle with the cycles of the treatment. Such details cover the intervals that separate different cures in addition to the concentration variation in the medication. The protocol should further determine how many cycles are necessary, whether the toxicity of the drugs represents a health risk, the level of recovery after every cycle of the treatment and so on.
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