We unfortunately live in an age where cancer has become a household word. We all have experienced this catastrophe with at least one relative, friend, colleague or someone we hold dear. This is no strange fact that in India cancer cases have been surging every year. With advancements in medical science, we have been able to fight with it to the very best that we can. In the wake of this, a lot of cancer care hospitals are being set up, both private and government.
The IARC (International Agency for Research on Cancer) has reported that every year Indian cases accounts to nearly 8% of total cancer deaths in the world. It's a long and difficult fight, but what has helped the most of late is that people are now aware of this disease and are not
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In women, breast cancer is more common, whereas in men, prostate, lung and colorectal cancers are more commonly diagnosed. Every cancer treatment has a different approach too.
How is cancer treated?
Its treatment is mostly subjective and depends on its stage. The aim is to kill just the cancer cells while protecting the normal cells so that the general health of an individual doesn't get affected.
The major treatments of cancer include:
Surgery - By this method, the tumor is removed directly by surgical methods.
Chemotherapy - The use of chemicals to kill cancer cells is called chemotherapy. It is by far the most common treatment used.
Radiation Therapy - To use X-rays to kill cancer cells is called Radiation therapy. Cancer care hospitals usually treat this as the last resort since it has the most side-effects.
In the light of this monstrous disease, several hospitals in India have devised special Cancer treatment programs. These programs give centralized attention to the patients, ensuring them, and majorly giving them the hope that everything is going to be alright. Separate hospitals for cancer are also being set up but that accreditation is only granted to those hospitals which have the appropriate facilities to treat
1. Chemotherapy tends to be the conventional lung cancer treatment used that everyone has heard of. Today it uses a cocktail of over 100 different drugs and works by destroying the cancerous cells and stopping their spread. However, although considered to be an acceptable treatment, it does tend to cause many unwanted side-effects.
Cancer is a disease in which cells multiply out of control and gradually build a mass of tissue called a tumor. There has been a large amount of research dedicated to the treatment and cure of cancer. Several types of treatments have been developed. The following are just some of the major examples of cancer therapy: surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, biologic therapy, biorhythms, unconventional treatments, and hyperthermia. Each type of treatment is discussed in detail below.
Treatment depends on number of factors like the health of a person and their age, treatments can be very strenuous on the body but almost no surgery is required. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy o combined making treatment for lymphoma very effective and giving it a high survival rate.
As modern humans, we understand that the quality of our health is affected by the negative impacts, such as air pollution, water and food. Science is developing in much faster way but at the same time number of problems are also arising. Problems like infectious diseases, diseases without any treatment or whose treatments are available up to a lesser extent such as Lung cancer, prostate cancer, skin cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, penile cancer etc. Cancer is responsible for one in seven deaths. It is epidemic disease thefore its consequences can be seen worldwide. More than twelve million new cases diagnosed yearly and the rate is increasing much faster (Hegde, j.j. 2009). Large number of patients die after developing cancer despite the availabity of various treatments, therefore there is a increase demand for a developing new approaches to cancer therapy. There are number of treatments available but the problem is that they have number of side effects, disturbance or effect on the norm...
For cancer patients there are several treatment options. Surgery can remove cancerous tumors, chemotherapy uses drugs for treatment, and radiation therapy. The doctor in charge of the patient’s treatment may also choose to use radiation therapy. “Radiation
The words in the book are so fluid that readers are capable of visualizing a clear mental picture of his experiences with his patients and the situations they went through dealing with cancer. In addition, this book, notably comes to life after page 304. This is where Mukherjee added illustrations of situations involving cancer dating back to the medieval description of cancer in 2500 BC. There were also illustrations in the 18th century and 19th century of how breast cancer was treated up until the 1990’s when Barbara Bradfield became the first patient to be treated with the drug Herceptin which attacks breast cancer cells. With the supplementation of illustrations in the book, readers can visually see how thing occurred centuries
In this day and age Cancer has started become an epidemic. Doctors have diagnosed hundreds of different types of cancer which can strike at anytime. Soon everyone will suffer or will have suffered from this social problem. “ Cancer is a general term used to indicate more than 100 separate diseases, but all marked by the common characterists of abnormal cell growth regulating mechanisms” ( Rodgers 14). Fortunately, with the advance in technology growing every day, many cancer diagnoses can be regulated or even cured with simple surgery.
Thus, the government and society must plays their own role on the precaution and prevention in daily life in order to reduce the risk of cancer. The awareness about this matter should be increase to save many human lives. Society should stress upon the symptom cause by cancer and be aware on their environmental exposure. Precautionary measures should be taken ahead to combat this life threatening disease.
People have used Carol W. Greider work to discover how aging and cancer occurs to the human body. Scientists have found how to get rid of cancer and even small telomerase. They found that small telomerase is not needed for survival. When someone has cancer, different medicines or therapies kill off cancer and even mutated telomerase. There are also other therapies such as radiation therapy, hormone therapy, and even immunotherapy. Surgery is used to remove some types of cancers, but not all.
...y is the most common form of drug treatment. “Chemotherapy uses different kinds of drugs that can kill cancer cells” (NW Hospital). Chemotherapy can also kill cancer that has spread throughout the body as well. Again there are some advantages and disadvantages. When the surgery is over the person will be as a smaller risk of the cancer returning. Disadvantages include disruption of the menstrual cycle in women.
Amongst the different types of fatal diseases, which humanity still has not been able to treat, cancer stands as one of the greatest feared illnesses. Unlike malaria, AIDS or other diseases that are contagious and easily transmittable in underdeveloped and low income countries, Cancer affects people all around the world, including equally rich and poor countries. Among the different forms of cancer, lung cancer remains the most common. The environment in which the public lives in plays a huge role in the development of this cancer. Cancer develops when cells in the body are mutated, and thus causing uncontrollable and rapid growth. Lung cancer is the uncontrollable development of atypical cells that form in either both or one lung. Lung cancer
“Since 1990, over 6 million Americans have died of cancer, more than the combined casualties from the Civil war, WWII, and the Vietnam and Korean conflicts combined” (Faguet, p. 5). According to American Cancer Society projections, there were 1,529,560 new cases of cancer in 2010. Cancer is becoming more and more common around the world. New cancers are constantly being discovered. Researchers are finding new ways to detect cancer and treat it so that the fatality rate does not rise. However, there are some cancers that researchers have not yet discovered a cure for. It is very important for Cancer Research to continue so that one day these cancers will no longer be a treat.
The discussion for this paper will be divided into three parts. The first part will discuss a little history about the field of oncology to give a little overview of how the field revolutionized how Cancer is treated. The second part will revolve around discussion details about the oncologist from how a person could become one, what they do, what they use and what they do to update themselves in the new discoveries and cure updates for the dreaded disease. The third part, the paper’s conclusion, will be highlighting some problems that are raised in the field and many others and also feature the future this field would have in the next couple of years. I will also state how this paper helped me in understanding the career path to take. To start of this paper, I shall give a brief history of cancer treatment and how it eventually lead to a field now known as oncology.
Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. Tumors are then created and interfering with the digestive, nervous and circulatory systems. It is one of the most leading causes of death, reaching at about 8.2 million deaths in 2012. It is expected that cancer will rise from 14 million to 22 million within the next 2 decades. With over 100 cancer research centers in the United States studying how to treat this disease, people need to understand the importance of donating also with the awareness of signs and symptoms in the early stages. But, what are we doing about it? Do we have the technology to finally be able to put this deadly disease to an end?
During chemotherapy, doctors use drugs to target the specific cells causing cancer (4). Chemotherapy may keep cancer cells from spreading to other parts of the body, slow the growth of cancer or even cure it; however, the treatment is not always a guarantee (4). Chemotherapy is targeted at killing the fast-growing cancer cells, but these drugs can also kill or damage the growth of the bodies healthy cells (4). This type of treatment can be administered in many ways. Some common ways of administration include oral, muscle injections, intrathecal, intraperitoneal, intra-arterial, topical, and intravenous (4).