Cancer Prevention has always been better than cure. Cancer prevention is no different. Cancerous tissue can develop in any part of the body. But largely, the media tends to focus mainly on breast and prostate cancer.
Another fatal type of cancer seen among Americans is the bladder cancer. The American Cancer Society mainly identifies four types [...]
Biological therapy, which is also known as the immunotherapy or biotherapy is a method which makes use of the body’s immune system to fight cancer. The immune system works towards protecting and defending the body against bacteria and viruses.
These Biological therapies can boost the immune system by making cancer cells more recognizable to the immune [...]
What is gene therapy?
Genes, which are carried on chromosomes, are the basic functional units of heredity. Genes are specific sequences of bases that encode instructions on how to make proteins. Gene therapy is a technique for correcting defective genes responsible for disease development.
Several approaches for correcting faulty genes:
Through direct replacement.
Through homologues recombination.
Through selective reverse mutation.
How [...]
The transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells a cure for cancer really is nowadays established as a therapy for a wide variety of congenital or even acquired severe disorders of the hematopoietic system as well as for chemo or even radio sensitive malignancies.
Stem cell storage can be done using a stem cell bank or cord blood [...]
Radiotherapy is the use of high energy x-rays and similar rays to treat disease. Radiotherapy is used as a treatment for over 100 years ago. Many people with cancer have radiotherapy as part of their treatment either external radiotherapy or internal radiotherapy. Radiotherapy works by destroying the cancer cells in the treated area .It [...]
Chemotherapy drugs are used to halt the division and reproduction of cancer cells, but can also damage some of the more sensitive normal cells, such as bone marrow. The cancer cells cannot survive after attack by chemotherapy drugs.
Each chemotherapy drugs has a unique mode of killing the cancer cells. Certain cancers, prostate cancer, for instance, [...]
