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Red chemotherapy: understand how it works and side effects

Red chemotherapy: understand how it works and side effects

Red chemotherapy is a term used by patients, nurses and understood by physicians in reference to chemotherapeutics of the class of anthracyclines, whose main drugs are Doxorubicin and Epirubicin. The treatment takes this name because the drugs get reddish coloration after dilution and due to their frequent and feared side effects, especially hair loss.

In addition to "red chemotherapy" there is "white chemotherapy", which means almost all the other medicines - of which taxanes and cyclophosphamide are the most commonly used. The main side effects of taxanes are: allergic reactions, nail changes, muscle aches, tingling of the hands and feet, decreased blood cells and hair loss.

Anthracyclic (red chemotherapy) medicines are indicated for different types of tumors such as: breast cancer, stomach cancer, bladder cancer, ovarian cancer, sarcomas, thymic carcinoma, leukemias and lymphomas.

Anthracyclics are contraindicated in patients with severe heart disease such as severe heart failure, acute myocardial infarction and severe arrhythmias or severe hepatic impairment.

The main side effects of red chemotherapy are: Alopecia (hair and hair loss), nausea and vomiting, canker sores and inflammation in the mouth, blood: anemia, decreased number of white blood cells and platelets and more rarely heart failure.

These medicines s as well as other classes of chemotherapeutic agents may be combined with each other within optimal protocols for each patient and disease.


Moderate fat intake is better than high-carbohydrate diet, says research

Moderate fat intake is better than high-carbohydrate diet, says research

For a long time science has led us to believe that carbohydrate consumption is better for the body than fat intake. So far so good. However, a survey of more than 135,000 people on five continents has shown that a diet that includes moderate intake of fats, fruits and vegetables and reduces carbohydrate consumption may lead to a lower risk of death.

(Health)

Sleeping just after dinner increases the chances of stroke

Sleeping just after dinner increases the chances of stroke

More than 1,000 patients participated in the study: 500 healthy subjects, 250 who had already undergone stroke and 250 who had coronary syndrome, a common type of heart disease that increases the chances of formation of blood clots in the arteries, strokes and heart attacks. Everyone completed a questionnaire about their sleeping and eating habits.

(Health)