2 Enlarged prostate A guide to diagnosis and treatment About this booklet This booklet is for men who want to know more about a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate gland, called benign prostatic enlargement (BPE). You may also hear this condition called benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). We describe the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of an enlarged prostate.Your partner or family might also find this booklet useful to help them understand the condition.
The nurse is assisting to prepare a nursing care plan for a patient with continuous IVs. The goal of IV therapy is to: 1. promote and maintain fluid and electrolyte balance. 2. promote drug blood levels when the patient is able to take liquid medication by mouth. 3. promote oxygen and carbon dioxide homeostasis. 4. balance plasma acidity levels.
Targeted therapy uses drugs to stop cancer from growing and spreading. It does this with less harm to normal cells than other treatments. Standard chemotherapy works by killings cancer cells and some normal cells, targeted treatment zeroes in on specific targets (molecules) in or on cancer cells. These targets play a role in how cancer cells grow and survive. Using these targets, the drug disables the cancer cells so they cannot spread.