### medical procedure | surgical procedure | treatment | therapy | chemotherapy:

Adjuvant chemotherapy
* improves long term disease-free survival.
* involves a combination of anticancer drugs.
* is recommended to an increasing proportion of patients
  - suggested to further improve chances of survival
  - treatment used very soon after surgery, primarily in early stage disease
* is used for many breast cancer patients
  - in event of regional recurrence
  - similarly, in hopes of increasing the cure rate in cancer treatment
* prolongs the survival of other patients.
* seems to help in salvaging patients with metastatic disease.

Intensive chemotherapy
* Most intensive chemotherapy has severe side effects
* has effects.
* has severe effects

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy
* is given after surgery.
* new therapeutic approach.

Standard chemotherapy
* Most standard chemotherapy is used by cancer patients.
* has effects
  - little effects
* is added to directly attack tumor cells.

Systemic chemotherapy
* Most systemic chemotherapy has effects
* affects rapidly dividing cells throughout the body.
* uses anticancer drugs that are usually given into a vein or by mouth

### medical procedure | surgical procedure | treatment | therapy:

Cognitive therapy
* can be as effective as psychopharmacology in the treatment of clinical depression.
* can help a person change negative thinking
  - the patient identify possible triggers for the attacks
* critical component of healthy eating.
* emphasizes a rational and positive world view.
* examines how thought patterns effect depression.
* fast-acting technology of mood change.
* focuses on client problems
  - correcting learned misconceptions
  - negative patterns of thinking and develops coping skills
* involves attempts at changing distorted thinking and beliefs
  - challenging and altering faulty thinking patterns
  - learning new ways to think
* is aimed at helping people recognize and change distorted ways of thinking
  - reassessing and correcting such thinking patterns
  - also helpful for social phobia
  - among the most popular forms of new psychotherapy
  - an active, directive form of psychotherapy
  - more complex than positive thinking
* is the most heavily researched form of psychotherapy
  - process where people learn to control their thoughts
* maintains that our thoughts precede and cause our feelings.
* provides relief to almost all panic sufferers.
* replaces dysfunctional thoughts with more useful ones.
* seeks to help people change how they think about things.
* specific form of psychological therapy.
* teaches the individual to recognise and challenge upsetting thoughts.
* time-limited treatment lasting three to four months.
* way of helping people to cope with stress and emotional problems.
* works on chronic problems and negative attitudes.

Cold therapy
* can provide temporary relief from the heat, pain and swelling.
* decreases swelling and reduces blood flow.
* is especially helpful in reducing inflammation and controlling pain.
* numbs the nerves around the joint and helps to relieve inflammation.
* reduces imflammation.
* relieves ankle pain and swelling.
* simple therapy that has many benefits.
* using ice has many applications.

Color therapy
* is applied to one's clothing, home and office.
* is based on the ancient art of using color and light to treat disease
  - fact that physiologic functions respond to specific colors
  - the use of color to treat physical, emotional, mental and spiritual imbalances
* makes use of the sense of sight.
* uses color to bring about certain emotional states.

Combination therapy
* is associated with an increased risk of minor and major bleeding
  - essential to prevent emergence of resistance
* provides benefits
  - term survival benefits