It’s news no woman wants to hear You have breast cancer... This year approximately 440 North Dakota women will be diagnosed with the disease. But the good news is fewer women are dying from it. That's because of early detection, but also better drugs and chemo treatments. Yesterday, we took you through the chemo process, tonight in part two of our series find out why chemo these days is way different from years back... (Reporter) It's can't be easy working on the oncology floor. Knowing only the sickest come here... (Mark Weichel R.N./ Dir. of Cancer Services) It's more of a calling. It's interesting, people that come to oncology know that where they belong. (Reporter) Nurse Mark has worked with cancer patients for over 20 years it's where he belongs. He prepares the cocktails of drugs for cancer patients and administers the pills and I.V.'s. In his years he's noticed major changes. (Mark Weichel R.N./ Dir. of Cancer Services) Especially with breast cancer patients women would live 2 to 3 years. We definitely see them living longer. (Reporter) It's because of the new chemo treatments coming out. Not only do they better kill and prevent cancer they're easier on the patient... (Julie Bernhardt/ Breast Cancer Survivor) You shouldn't have to suffer through any side effects. There are drugs to combat all of these things and you shouldn't have to go through the treatments miserably. (Mark Weichel R.N./ Dir. of Cancer Services) 20 years ago, all we'd do for the patient to prevent nausea is to rum-dummy them. We give them a cocktail to basically make'em drunk so they wouldn't remember getting sick. I remember putting patients to a car and when they'd walk they'd weeble-wobble... (Reporter) Back then, if the cancer didn't kill a patient the chemo tried... (Mark Weichel R.N./ Dir. of Cancer Services) They got plenty sick, that didn't stop them from throwing up, just stopped them from remembering throwing up. In 1990, Zophr...
It’s news no woman wants to hear You have breast cancer... This year approximately 440 No...
