Chemotherapy(or chemo) is a treatment that uses strong drugs to kill cancer cells and to stop and slow their growth. Since the drugs travel through the bloodstream, it can treat almost any type of cancer, anywhere in your body. Chemotherapy can also shrink tumors that are causing pain or o...
Typical cancer treatments consist of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormone therapy, biological therapy, drugs, and bisphosphonates to name a few. Chemotherapy is one of the most commonly used cancer treatments and the phrase chemotherapy literally stands for “cancer drug treatment”. The term simply mean...
Photodynamic therapyis a laparoscopic surgery that puts drugs near tumors. Light activates the medicine, and it kills cancer cells. Laser surgeryuses strong beams of light to cut into your skin. It’s good for very tiny areas. Lasers can also sometimes shrink tumors. ...
In one clinical trial,90% of pleural mesothelioma patients had their cancer stabilizewith the immunotherapy amatuximab plus the standard chemotherapy drugspemetrexed (Alimta®)and cisplatin. “Stabilize” means their tumors didn’t grow or spread during treatment. 4. Adoptive Cell Therapy Adoptive ce...
Radiation exposure.Previous radiation therapy can put you at ahigher risk of getting adenocarcinoma. So can too much UV radiation from sunlight. Adenocarcinoma Symptoms The symptoms of adenocarcinoma you experience will depend on the type of cancer you have. Here are some of the main cancer symptom...
Are there certain cancer types that males are not at risk of developing? If yes, what are those? What is metastasis and why is it incurable? If the fusion hypothesis is correct, what types of cancer therapy could be used to fight cancer?
Cancers of the brain are the consequence of abnormal growths of cells in the brain. Brain cancers can arise from primary brain cells, the cells that form other brain components (for example, membranes, blood vessels), or from the growth of cancer cells that develop in other organs and that...
However, only a limited population of cancer patients are successfully treated with checkpoint inhibitors. Therefore, there are efforts to evaluate the efficacy and safety of using a checkpoint inhibitor in combination with another checkpoint inhibitor or another therapy type. For example, the combination...
Immunotherapy.This treatment uses drugs that strengthen your immune system so it can better fight the cancer. Biological therapy.Living material in the form of bacteria, vaccines, or antibodies are carefully introduced to kill cancer cells.
Lung cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the lungs. Lung cancers are categorised into two main groups: 1) small cell lung cancer, and 2) non-small cell lung cancer. Non-small cell lung cancer is the more common of the two types....