Cancer is a disease like any other. The only thing that in involves is the greater care for the patient and needs longer time to treat the patient based on their condition and the cancer stage. Cancer treatment has different objectives, depending on the type of cancer and how advanced it is. These objectives include
- Finding a cure: This is not possible for all cancers and situations.
- Providing primary treatment: Killing the cancer cells in your body.
- Providing adjuvant treatment: Killing cancer cells that remain after primary treatment to reduce your risk of the cancer coming back.
- Providing palliative treatment: Relieving health symptoms associated with cancer, such as trouble breathing and pain.
The most common type of Treatments are:
Below is the list of some most common treatment options available that are involves in the Cancer treatment.
Surgically removes as much of the cancer as possible via a Surgery.
With the Chemotherapy, doctors use medications that are toxic to cells to kill rapidly-dividing cancer cells.
Uses powerful, focused beams of radiation inside (brachytherapy) or outside (external beam radiation) your body to kill cancer cells. This is called Radiation Therapy.
Repairs diseased bone marrow with healthy stem cells. Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that can have a variety of functions. These transplants allow doctors to use higher doses of chemotherapy to treat the cancer. This involves Stem Cell (Bone Marrow) Transplant.
Immunotherapy uses antibodies to help your body’s immune system recognize cancer so it can fight it off.
Hormone Therapy
Removes or blocks hormones that fuel certain cancers to stop cancer cells from growing.
In the Targeted Drug Therapy, the doctors use drugs that interfere with certain molecules which cause cancer Cells to grow. Thus limiting the cancer Growth.
Apart from the above mentioned treatment paths, there are some other method of treatment to the Cancer that are different from mainstream cancer treatment. These methods are used to decrease symptoms of cancer and side effects of cancer treatment, such as nausea, fatigue, and pain. Alternative medicine includes:
- Acupuncture
- Hypnosis
- Massage
- Yoga
- Meditation
- Relaxation techniques
Also, there are several hospitals that run the Clinical Trials. Clinical Trials are a type of research study that tests how well new medical approaches work in people. These studies test new methods of screening, prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a disease. Patients who are willing, can take part in these trials and look forward to get better with the latest medicines and treatment that are available at the moment.