Cancer and radiation treatment: be ready
In radiation treatment for cancer, noxious radiation is used in a VERY focused way to kill cancer cells. Using information from PET scans and more, the physician/math/physics expert designs a treatment strategy suitable for the type and location of cancer cells. The objective is to kill cancer cells without harming the healthy tissue around them. This is easier said than done. There will always be damage to healthy tissue, even when using top-of-the-line methodology and equipment. For example, the skin is on the way when targeting breast cancer cells “hiding” within the bones. What will happen? Let’s concentrate on the fact that cancer cells will be destroyed, adding months or years of life; let’s be heroic and take the treatment. But we can’t ignore the other fact: the skin will be burned to some extent and hurt. Here is where Skin Actives can help.
A post-radiation cream will help with the pain (and itch) of the skin areas affected by the treatment. You can apply it immediately after the treatment and as often as convenient. The doctor may ask you not to apply it before the radiation treatment; you don’t want to interfere with the killing of the cancerous cells. You can also use a lipid serum to help heal and ameliorate pain and itch. Use a lipid serum also with scars from cancer treatment surgery, which can result in pain and itch lasting for months.
ELS can also help with another nasty leftover from cancer surgery: lymphedema. Lymphedema happens when the surgeon has to remove lymphatic nodes that have been invaded by cancer cells. The lymphatic system would allow cancer cells to invade the rest of the body rapidly, so the affected nodes must be removed. The human body may be unique, but it’s not well designed for illness: remove lymph nodes, and fluid will accumulate in the affected extremity. Lymphedema must be treated; otherwise, excess fluids will lead to skin damage and worse. ELS serum can, again, be beneficial, restoring softness to the skin in the hand and arm of the affected extremity. A new surgical technique can help many: in the lymphovenous bypass, microsurgical is used to reroute the lymphatic system, bypassing damaged nodes and connecting lymphatic channels directly into the veins.
The scalp and hair are also important. The chemical treatments used to contain, slow down, and/or stop cancer from spreading are designed for each type of cancer, but most of them will also affect cells that divide rapidly, like those in the skin and scalp. Help keep your hair healthy by using Skin Actives hair serum. Even if the serum doesn’t stop hair loss during chemotherapy, it will accelerate recovery. The same goes for eyebrows and eyelashes.
Have a good lipid serum nearby when the skin itches and you can’t sleep!
Hannah
DISCLAIMER: These claims have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, cure, treat or prevent any disease.