Review of Cancer Treatments

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Oncology: The Painfully Great Science Outline -Introduction -What is Cancer? -What is Oncology? -Rituxan -Avastin -Revlimid -Gleevec -Conclusion Oncology: The Painfully Great Science “When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.” – Terri Clark This statement is very true. When someone is diagnosed with cancer it starts a journey down a road that no one wants to travel on. In recent years, there have been countless trials and tests to find a cure for this terrible disease but none have been entirely successful. There are treatments on the market that can help and slow down the process, but they have various side effects that aren’t quite appealing. The best treatments in todays world include; Rituxan, Avastin, Revlimid, and Gleevec. They all have a different tasks and developments that take affects in the body but each remarkable in its own way. INTRODUCTION Cancer in one way or another touches all of us, whether as a patient or through the diagnosis of the people you love around you. Millions of patients who are faced with cancer are depending on oncologists everywhere to cure cancer so others will not suffer like they had to. Optimistically, sooner rather than later this international problem will come to an end. There are a number of drug companies that have been coming out with cancer treatment drugs. “Oncology has been one of the hottest and most active therapeutic areas for drug development, drug makers may want to take note of a finding that new cancer drugs have proven far more difficult to gain approval than medicines for infectious and autoimmune diseases.” (nature.com) Unfortunately, these drugs cannot cure the cancer but it sure makes it a load easier o... ... middle of paper ... ...Northwestern University. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 May 2014. . "Revlimid." REvlimid. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 May 2014. . "Rituximab (Rituxian)." Phoenix Rising RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 May 2014. . "The Story of Gleevec." innovation.org -. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 May 2014. . Wapner, Jessica, and Robert A. Weinberg. The Philadelphia chromosome: a mutant gene and the quest to cure cancer at the genetic level. New York, NY: The Experiment, LLC, 2013. Print.

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