chemotherapy

Furthermore, you have to balance the toxicity with the symptoms from progressive cancer or old style ineffective chemotherapy.

For example, Colon cancer has a 1.8% success rate with Chemotherapy and Lung cancer has a 1% success rate.

The protocol in that work was a periodic 2 day water fast in 6 cycles timed with the Chemotherapy adminstration.

Well, on average, it does give you more time, that is of better quality than chemotherapy.

I was so goddamned stubborn that I played basketball through my chemotherapy treatments for Hodgkin's Disease in HS.

In those patients whose cancer progression could be assessed, fasting did not prevent the chemotherapy-induced reduction of tumor volume or tumor markers.

What's funny to me is that even if chemotherapy doesn't work, there are essentially plans B, C, D, etc.

Let's say that you need 6 cycles of chemotherapy (over 18 weeks) and that each involves three days during which you can't work.

For example, she's been on 3 different kinds of chemotherapy for 12+ months.

This builds on some earlier work where the Authors investigated Intermittent water fasting on Chemotherapy recipients and found that their immune systems regenerated better.

And when the treatments are things like surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, etc, that's a pretty big deal.

I was diagnosed with cancer at 25, and underwent multiple rounds of chemotherapy and was out of work for some months.

I wonder if one reason for the difference in language is that chemotherapy is so brutal that it ends up feeling like a "battle".

Doctors don't set up treatment plans ahead of time like that; they don't say "well you have cancer so we are going to do chemotherapy for 6 months and then stop".

This is a hospital that administers chemotherapy so the instructions are more complicated than "take with food three times a day." The developer who got assigned that ticket had the nerve to suggest using abbreviations instead of making the change.

Chemotherapy is more akin to amputation of irretrievable mortified flesh than to blood letting.

They then did a very small pilot study and saw the reversal of immunosenescence in people who did the cyclic fasting without Chemotherapy.