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| Usually back pain, usually in thoracic or ribs. Feels worse after sleep |
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| Bony Metastases Complications |
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| Spinal cord compression, intractable pain, pathological fracture |
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| Malignancies that spread to spinal cord. Can involve vertebral area. |
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| Malignancies with propensity to spread to bone |
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| Spinal cord compression initial symptoms |
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| Spinal cord compression Treatment |
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| Surgically debulk, radiation, chemo |
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| Chemotherapeutic agents: OLD |
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| Kill dividing cells, hope to kill cancer more than normal since they divide more often. |
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| Chemotherapeutic agents: OLD types |
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Alkalyting agents: bind to, disrupt DNA
Folate antagonists: inhibits folate activity to decrease replication |
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| Chemotherapeutic agents: OLD: Side effects |
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| Non selective. Suppress bone marrow, toxic to cerebellum, neuropathy, nausea, vomiting |
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| Chemotherapeutic agents: NEW |
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| Biologic agents. Target metabolic pathways or receptors in cancer cells. More selective. More tolerable side effects. |
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| Chemotherapeutic agents: NEW:ex: breast cancer |
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| Her2Neu receptor. Drug: Herceptin inhibits receptor to decrease the cancer. |
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