The Best Modern Methods Of Cancer Treatment

Cancer treatment is the use of surgery, radiation, medicine, and other treatments to treat, reduce, or stop the development of cancer.
There are many ways to treat cancer. Depending on your specific condition, you may receive one treatment method or a combination of treatment methods.

Why do you run

The goal of cancer treatment is to achieve cancer cure, allowing you to have a normal life. Depending on your specific situation, this may or may not be possible.

If treatment is not possible, cancer treatments may be used to reduce the size of cancer or slow its growth to allow you to lead a life without symptoms for as long as possible.

Cancer treatments may be used as:

  • An essential treatment. The main treatment is to completely remove cancer from your body or kill all cancerous cells.
  • Any cancer treatment can be used as the primary treatment, but surgery is the most common basic cancer treatment. 
  • If your cancer is particularly sensitive to radiotherapy or chemotherapy, you may receive one of these treatments as your primary treatment.
  • Adjuvant therapy. Auxiliary treatment aims to kill any remaining cancerous cells after the primary treatment in order to reduce the chance of the cancer returning.
  •  Common auxiliary therapies include chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and hormonal therapy.
  • Similar to auxiliary pre-treatment, but treatments are used before the initial treatment to make the initial treatment easier or more effective.
  • Palliative treatment. Palliative treatment may help relieve the side effects of the treatment or signs and symptoms caused by cancer itself. 
  • Surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and hormonal therapy can be used to relieve symptoms. Other medications may relieve symptoms such as pain and shortness of breath.
  • Palliative therapy can be used simultaneously with other treatments aimed at treating cancer.

What you can expect

Multiple treatments are available to treat cancer. Treatment options depend on a number of factors, such as the type and stage of cancer, general health, and preferred treatments. You and your doctor together can assess the benefits and risks of every cancer treatment to determine the best for you.

Cancer treatment options include:

Surgery.

Surgery aims to eradicate cancer or whatever cancer can be removed.
Chemotherapy. Chemotherapy uses medications to kill cancer cells.

Radiotherapy.

 Radiation therapy uses high-energy beams like X-rays or protons to kill cancer cells. Radiotherapy can be received from an external body (external beams), or by placing it inside the body (internal radiotherapy).

Bone marrow transplant.

 Bone marrow is the substance inside the bone that makes blood cells from stem cells. Bone marrow transplants, also known as stem cell transfusions, can use the stem cells of your bone marrow or your donor.

Bone marrow transplantation allows your doctor to use higher doses of chemotherapy to treat cancer. It can also be used to replace parts of the bone marrow that have the disease.

Immunotherapy.

 Immunotherapy, also known as biological therapy, uses the body's immune system to fight cancer. Cancer may remain undetected because the immune system is unable to recognize it as an intruder. Immunotherapy helps the immune system identify and attack cancer.

Hormone therapy.

 Some cancers feed on body hormones. Examples include breast cancer and prostate cancer. Removing these hormones from the body, or preventing their effects, helps stop the growth of cancer cells.

Targeted drug therapy.

 Targeted drug therapy focuses on specific abnormalities in cancer cells that allow them to persist.

Freezing ablation. 

This treatment kills cancer cells with cold. During freezing excision, a thin stick-like needle (cooling probe) is inserted through the skin and directed directly to the location of the tumor. The gas is pumped through the coolant probe to freeze the tissue, then the tissue is left to dissolve. Freezing and thawing are repeated several times in one treatment session until the cancer cells are killed.

Frequency wave excision.

 This treatment uses electrical energy to warm the cancer cells, causing them to die. During the frequency excision, the doctor guides a thin needle through the skin / or through an incision until it reaches the cancerous tissue. High-frequency energy passes through the needle, warming the surrounding tissues and killing nearby cells.

Clinical trials. 

Clinical trials are studies looking for new ways to treat cancer. Thousands of cancer clinical trials are now underway.
Depending on the type of cancer you have, there may be other treatments available for you.
  • External References: 

  1. https://www.mayoclinic.org/ar/tests-procedures/cancer-treatment/about/pac-20393344
  2. http://languages.cancercouncil.com.au/ar/