The most important waste stream from nuclear power plants is spent nuclear fuel. It is primarily composed of unconverted uranium as well as significant quantities of transuranic actinides (plutonium and curium, mostly). In addition, about 3% of it is fission products from nuclear reactions.
Main article: Chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with drugs (anticancer drugs) that can destroy cancer cells. In current usage, the term chemotherapy usually refers to cytotoxic drugs which affect rapidly dividing cells in general, in contrast with targeted therapy (see below).
Treatment of stage I and stage II pancreatic cancer may include the following: 1  Surgery. 2  Surgery followed by chemotherapy. 3  Surgery followed by chemoradiation. 4  A clinical trial of combination chemotherapy. 5  A clinical trial of chemotherapy and targeted therapy, with or without chemoradiation.