Immunotherapy- A Non-Surgical Respite for Cancer Patients
There are many types of cancer treatment
depending upon the type of cancer and at how advanced level it is.
While some cancer has only one type of treatment, most
people have to undergo a combination of treatment including surgery with
chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. Also, available are treatments like:-
1) Immunotherapy
2) Targeted therapy
3) Stem cell transplant
4) Hormone therapy.
Let's have a peek into
these treatments to know more about them:-
1) Surgery
As a treatment for cancer, surgery is a process in
which a surgeon removes cancer tumors from the body. Surgery could be open
surgery or minimally invasive surgery.
In the open surgery, a large cut is made by the
surgeon to remove the tumor, a few health issues and maybe some nearby lymph
nodes.
While in the invasive surgery the surgeon makes few
small cuts. It takes less time to recover in this kind of surgery, then open
surgery.
2) Radiation therapy
In this kind of cancer treatment, high doses of
radiations are made used to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. These
radiations slow the growth or kill cancer cells damaging their DNA. Once the
DNA is broken down, cells are removed by the body.
3) Chemotherapy
This is a type of cancer treatment in which drugs are
used to kill cancer cells. These drugs slow down or stop the growth of cancer
cells. Adjuvant chemotherapy is continued on the patient to destroy cancer
cells that remain after treatment with surgery or radiation therapy.
Chemotherapy helps other treatment methodologies to
work better killing cancer cells that have returned or spread to the other part
of the body.
4) Hormone therapy
This therapy slows down or stops the growth of cancer
cell that uses hormones to grow. This is also known as endocrine therapy.
Hormone therapy lessens the chances of cancer to return or stop or slows its
process.
Hormone therapy is used to prevent or reduce symptoms
in men with prostate cancer in whom surgery or radiation therapy cannot be
carried out.
5) Stem cell transplant
This is the procedure that restores blood-forming stem
cells in cancer patients who have destroyed theirs due to high doses of
chemotherapy or radiation therapy.
In this treatment, a patient's immune system helps to
fight cancer. It may be made up of white blood cells, organs, and tissues of
the lymph system. Immunotherapy is a biological therapy that uses substances
from other living organisms to treat cancer.
Intravenous (IV) is the immunotherapy going directly
into the vein. While in the oral immunotherapy, pills or capsules are swallowed
by the patient.
In the topical immunotherapy, the cream is rubbed on
to the skin for the treatment of very early stages of skin cancer.
Intravesical immunotherapy goes directly into the
bladder.
Cancer treatment at
GIOSTAR
Cancer treatment is carried out at GIOSTAR under the
supervision of Dr. Anand
Srivastava, one of the most renowned doctors in cancer treatment,
worldwide. He is chairman, co-founder, and chief scientific officer at the
institute. The institute promises treatment of cancer without surgery using
immunotherapy.
Patients get treatment
here for:-
·
Prostate
or bladder cancer
·
Breast
cancer
·
Colon
cancer
·
Hepatic
or liver cancer
·
Oral
cancer
·
Lung
cancer
·
Skin
cancer
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