Oncology & Cancer Case Reports

Ethics in Cancer Care-Commentary

Kashetti Smita^{* *}Correspondence: Kashetti Smita, Managing Editor, Journal of Oncology and Cancer Case Reports Chaussee de la Hulpe 181, Watermael-Boi, Belgium, Email:

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Competing interests among global health communities, industries and governments on mandating primary prevention strategies such as tobacco control. Equitable access for evidence-based screening, diagnosis and treatment of cancer in underprivileged populations

Regarding the first question, the best available evidence applied to the ethical principles of Beauchamp and Childress shows that treatments (such as chemotherapy) with clinical benefit are fair and beneficial. Indeed, the suspension or delay of such treatments should be considered malefic. Chemotherapy is most often given as an infusion into a vein (intravenously). The drugs can be given by inserting a tube with a needle into a vein in your arm or into a device in a vein in your chest. Chemotherapy pills. Some chemotherapy drugs can be taken in pill or capsule form. Cost is an ethical issue in three ways: price, value, and burden. In the United States, the high prices of potentially life-sustaining treatments and technologies that are set by manufacturers are frequently characterized as unsustainable for public and private insurance programs and for patients.

Ethics is based on well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues. "Being ethical is doing what the law requires." Ethics consists of the standards of behavior our society accepts.

An ethical dilemma is a situation or problem facing an individual that involves complex and often conflicting principles of ethical behavior. Ethical dilemmas. Situations in which there is a choice to be made between two options, neither of which resolves the situation in an ethically acceptable fashion. Dilemma refers to a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones. IV chemotherapy should not cause any pain while being administered. If you experience pain, contact the nurse taking care of you to check your IV line. An exception would be if there is a leak and the drug gets into surrounding tissues.

Most people think that chemotherapy drugs always cause hair loss. But some don't cause any hair loss at all or only slight thinning. Other types of chemotherapy may cause complete hair loss. It might include your eyelashes, eyebrows, underarm, leg and sometimes pubic hair. The length of time for chemotherapy regimens can range from 5 minutes to 8 or more hours. It all depends on the chemotherapy. Throughout the chemotherapy, your nurse will come in and check your vitals and make sure you aren't reacting to the medications.

Both morality and ethics loosely have to do with distinguishing the difference between “good and bad” or “right and wrong.” Many people think of morality as something that's personal and normative, whereas ethics is the standards of “good and bad” distinguished by a certain community or social setting.

Unethical behavior can be defined as actions that are against social norms or acts that are considered unacceptable to the public. Ethical behavior is the complete opposite of unethical behavior. Ethical behavior follows the majority of social norms and such actions are acceptable to the public.

Bioethics not only provides a guideline to medical professionals about clinical decision-making, advancements in medical technologies, but also playing vital role in policy changes and legislation in recent years. Autonomy: which is respecting a person's right to make their own decisions long-term.