12-31-2013, 10:21 PM
Immunotherapy is a most advanced cancer therapy
Radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery are the conventional methods in the fight against cancer. Radiation was discovered in the 1800's by Marie Curie. Chemotherapy evolved from mustard gas (World War 1), and surgery dates back to the ancient Egyptians.
These treatment modalities are all based on obliterates cancer cells by burning them (irradiation), poisoning them (chemotherapy) or removing them (surgery). While they can effectively kill or remove cancer cells, the use of these treatments often is limited because large numbers of healthy cells also tend to be destroyed. This often results in extreme morbidity and/or disfigurement of the patients treated with them. In the worst cases, these treatments can sometimes result in the patient's death. Starting from the past and till date there is no sure treatment of cancer, and for the reason that of the complexity of cancer biology, it will likely not be within reach. It is now generally settled that the future of cancer therapy lies in the amalgamation of therapies with different mechanisms of action.
As a most modern approach Immunotherapy has come-up for cancer treatment. It is based on the generally-accepted supposition that the immune system is the most excellent tool humans have for fighting disease of bacterial and viral.
Cancer Immunotherapies have the possibility to be used to fighting cancer by either be relevant to external stimulus to the immune system to make it act more vigorously or 'smarter', or by given that the immune system with man-made or naturally-derived tumor specific proteins prepared outside of the body so that the immune system can recognize the tumor as a foreign entity and obliterate it. Immunotherapy is used time to time to care for cancer, but it is most frequently used in amalgamation with customary treatments like radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery in order to improve their effects. One of the potential reimbursements of immunotherapy is that it has the potential not to be as toxic as radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery. In calculation, immunotherapy often may offer a special mode of attack on the tumor, thereby affording both patients and doctors alike a potential new treatment in the fight in opposition to cancer.
Radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery are the conventional methods in the fight against cancer. Radiation was discovered in the 1800's by Marie Curie. Chemotherapy evolved from mustard gas (World War 1), and surgery dates back to the ancient Egyptians.
These treatment modalities are all based on obliterates cancer cells by burning them (irradiation), poisoning them (chemotherapy) or removing them (surgery). While they can effectively kill or remove cancer cells, the use of these treatments often is limited because large numbers of healthy cells also tend to be destroyed. This often results in extreme morbidity and/or disfigurement of the patients treated with them. In the worst cases, these treatments can sometimes result in the patient's death. Starting from the past and till date there is no sure treatment of cancer, and for the reason that of the complexity of cancer biology, it will likely not be within reach. It is now generally settled that the future of cancer therapy lies in the amalgamation of therapies with different mechanisms of action.
As a most modern approach Immunotherapy has come-up for cancer treatment. It is based on the generally-accepted supposition that the immune system is the most excellent tool humans have for fighting disease of bacterial and viral.
Cancer Immunotherapies have the possibility to be used to fighting cancer by either be relevant to external stimulus to the immune system to make it act more vigorously or 'smarter', or by given that the immune system with man-made or naturally-derived tumor specific proteins prepared outside of the body so that the immune system can recognize the tumor as a foreign entity and obliterate it. Immunotherapy is used time to time to care for cancer, but it is most frequently used in amalgamation with customary treatments like radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery in order to improve their effects. One of the potential reimbursements of immunotherapy is that it has the potential not to be as toxic as radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery. In calculation, immunotherapy often may offer a special mode of attack on the tumor, thereby affording both patients and doctors alike a potential new treatment in the fight in opposition to cancer.
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