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Depending on the type and stage of the tumor your may include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy, some experimental types of therapies. Most commonly treating tumors requires more than one type of cancer therapy.
*Surgery
Surgery is the main treatment for early tumors that have not metastasized. Your surgeon may need to remove a lot of normal tissue around the tumor. Often it is impossible. The tumor may sit near or within a vital nerve, vessel or organ.
*Radiation Therapy
X rays or gamma ray cause genetic damage of cancerous cells. Side effects include fatigue, skin problems, decreased appetite.
*Chemotherapy
Anticancer drugs combat cancer, interfere with making new DNA in cancer cells’, stop them dividing,activate programmed cell death. Most common combination in cancer treatments is surgery or radiation followed by chemotherapy.
*Hormone Therapy
Hormone Therapy is used for breast and prostate cancer, and other cancers that depend on sex hormones to grow.
*Immunotherapy.
Your own immune system fights cancer cells. Immunotherapy uses antibodies mostly. Another type - using killed bacteria (BCG) that boosts your own immune sytem. One more approach - to use differnt immune cell actvators (like interlukins, interferons). Monoclonal antibody are produced artificially. Monoclonal antibody target cancer cells with precision. Your blood cells might be taken out, activated in lab and returned back to hunt cancer cells. There are some other therpaies in developmet, like angiogeneisis inhibitors that deprive cancer cells form blood and oxygen. | | Author: | Aleksandr Kavokin, MD, PhD | | System: | General | | Subject: | Cancer | | Abstract: | Mostly, treating tumors requires more than one type of cancer therapy. | | Website: | http://www.kavokin.com | | Time: | 19:39 | | Reference: | http://www.rdoctor.com | | Reference 2: | http://www.symptomat.com |
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