People who have gone through chemotherapy can do allergy tests? Or, it is useless to do allergy tests because the results will be wrong as the immune system was altered/reset during the treatement?
Dr. Zakia Dimassi,
Pediatrics
- This depends on the type and intensity of the chemotherapeutic agents, and the period of time between the end of the Chemotherapy and the date of the allergy test.
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Is colon cancer of T3 N1 m0 treatable? What is the related statistical percentage of cure? What is the expected treatment? duration? Failure? Pain?
Dr. Mohamad Siblini,
Surgery
- T3n1m0 is stage 3b , if surgery is done with clean margins, the expected survival at 5 years can reach 70-80% with 12 cycle of chemotherapy. 15 days interval between each cycle. About failure I did no... Read More
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Lung adenocarcinoma patient has body temperature ranging from 35.4 to 37.5. He is taking filgrastim and innohep.Does it mean that he is having fever once he reached 37 degrees?
Dr. Zakia Dimassi,
Pediatrics
- A temperature measured orally and ranging between 35.4 degrees Celsius and 37.7 degrees Celsius is perfectly normal; the point at which we start suspecting an impending rise in temperature and for whi... Read More
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Should this patient stay far away from kids especially newly vaccinated, and for how long?
Dr. Zakia Dimassi,
Pediatrics
- Kids having recently received live or live attenuated vaccines, namely oral polio vaccine (this is a live vaccine and is the most hazardous for an immunosuppressed individual), varicella vaccine, infl... Read More
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What are the necessary precautions for lung cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy?
Dr. Zakia Dimassi,
Pediatrics
- Chemotherapy, while targeting cancerous cells, inadvertently harms the cells of the immune system, which renders patients on chemotherapy immune suppressed and hence prone to contract serious infectio... Read More
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Could cancer disappear suddenly without any sign?
Dr. Zakia Dimassi,
Pediatrics
- Cancer can only disappear with treatment: chemotherapy, surgery, or both. No cancers can resolve without intervention, with very few and rare exceptions (such as a cancer in children known as neurobla... Read More
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After treating a brain tumor (by surgery or chemotherapy or radiotherapy) what are the chances (perecentage) that the tumor won't show up again and the patient will be cured?
2 Answers
Dr. Fadi Abbas,
Oncology & Hematology
- the question is misleading, as usually brain tumors are treated by surgery and chemotherapy and radiotherapy all together (what we call a multi-modal treatment).
Glioblastomas multiforme are the most... Read More
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