Colorectal Cancer Part 2: Medical or Herbal Treatment?

The primary therapy for colorectal cancer is surgery. At an early stage, surgery cures it. However, more often than not, doctors would refer patients to the oncologists after the surgery. And oncologists, from my experience living in the developing country, would invariably ask patients to undergo chemotherapy even if the cancer was “caught” at an early stage. The rational is preventive, i.e., to provide “protection” against future problems.

The cytotoxic drug, fluorouracil, commonly known as 5-FU is the gold standard agent used. This drug was discovered in 1957 by Dr. Charles Heidelberger of the University of Wisconsin. According to Joel Hardman et al. (in The Pharmaceutical basis of therapeutics), 5-FU produces a partial response in 10% to 30% of patients with metastatic cancers of the breast and gastrointestinal tract. The cytotoxic activities of 5-FU is enhanced when combined with agents like leucovorin, interferon, methotrexate, cisplatin, etc.

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The Top 3 ADHD Alternative Treatments and How Your Child Can Benefit From Them

ADHD alternative treatments are the tangible answer to millions of worried parents who don’t want to let their ADHD diagnosed children undergo prescription drugs and their potential side-effects. There are many effective alternative ADHD treatments that can be applied to successfully treat ADHD.

As ADHD is a neuro-psychic disorder, children with ADHD show certain behavioral traits which are clearly visible to everyone. They are often restless, jittery and hyperactive.

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Massage Therapy’s Medical Benefits and Risks Unrevealed

Most people would be forgiven for thinking massage and medicines are two words that would never go together. Medicine is considered a very serious practice with equally stringent measures to cure and also to prevent diseases while massage, by and large, is considered a leisurely activity in which one partakes after a long day of hard work to relax. Even in the scientific community it has not been widely accepted that massage therapy spa can be a standard of treatment owing to the fact that it’s one of those things that can be put under a microscope to be “scientifically proven”.

The truth is that massage has always been a part of medicine and it is actually one of the earliest known methods of healing and it was not until in the last century that human faith largely shifted to chemical means of treating anything and everything. Ignoring the traditional forms of treatment and wholly accepting the new ones came at a great price as many people have and still do experience a great many side-effects as a result of treatment for even the simplest of ailments such as a backache. This is why there is a now another branch of treatment that is arising and is being greatly appreciated by millions of patients who have testified to its effectiveness. This is what is known as Medical massage therapy.

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