Chemo-radiotherapy

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................2
Discussion................................................................................................................................................2
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................6
References...................................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Cancer is the life threating disorder that affects people from all around the world, and
there are different types of treatment available according to the type of Cancer the person has.
Two of the most important cancer therapies include chemotherapy and radiotherapy (Siegel,
Miller, and Jemal, 2016).in the Chemotherapy treatment is specific drugs are used that are
designed in such a way that kills the cells that are responsible to cause cancer problems (DeVita,
and Chu, 2008). On the other hand, the radiotherapy uses extremely advanced technology in
order to deliver the targeted beams of radiation to destroy the cancer cells. However, both the
treatment strategies have different side effects (Jones, et al., 2011). The combination of
chemotherapy and radiation therapies called chemo-radiotherapy are designed in a way to cure
the body and stop the cancer cell progression. It has been studied that a single therapy is less
effective than the two therapies used at the same time (van Hagen et al., 2012). In this particular
assessment report, the advantages of using the combined therapy of chemotherapy and radiation
therapy will be discussed.
Discussion
The combinations therapy is basically the use of two different therapies at the same time
to treat a patient (Scheer, Fakiris, and Johnstone, 2011). The combination of two therapies
provides the clinicians to deliver high-quality care and encounter the health target already set for
the patient (Park et al., 2015). In several cases, the combination therapy not only enhances the
chances of treatment or long term benefits bit also decreases the injury to the different vital
organs and the tissues of the body in a single strategy. For example in the osteosarcoma, a bone
cancer that happens mostly in adults, the surgical amputation was the only treatment previously.

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The combined treatment of chemotherapy and radiation therapy is commonly able to kill cancer
deprived of essential loss of the limb. Likewise in case of early-stage breast cancer commonly
treated by removing the tumor and nearby tissues with the radiation therapy. In past, this type of
cancer was treated by removing the whole breast from the body along with the nearby lymph
nodes and other tissues and It was the only option to treat cancer (Scheer, Fakiris, and Johnstone,
2011).
A single type of therapy sometimes turns the tumor more vulnerable to the second type.
Some type of chemotherapy medicines can enhance the tumor's vulnerability to radiation
treatment. On other scenarios the drugs works collaboratively each improves the others' strength;
therefore their combined efficacy is higher than would be expected by their specific impact. The
combinations of various chemotherapy agents are commonly applied to shut off the cancer
escape ways (Ohe, 2005). During the last two decades, joining chemotherapy and radiation has
transformed the face of cancer management. Some chemotherapy mediators assist explain
radiation so that it performs well, and deliver a complete effect in totaling to the native result of
the radiation, possibly stopping or postponing metastasis. If the high amounts of either modality
are desired, it is occasionally possible to apply a lesser dose of each to achieve the similar
outcomes, but with inferior toxicity or the necessity for less (or no) operation (Klopp, and Eifel,
2011).
In numerous cases, the adding of chemotherapy to radiation therapy, in fact, leads to
enhancements in general survival versus simply using radiation only. The indication of joining
drugs with the radiation is not completely new (Pepek, Chino, Willett, Palta, Blazer III, Tyler,
Uronis, and Czito, 2013). Investigators first investigated with the joint therapies more than 50