Articles of category "Cancer therapy"

A method of cancer treatment is selected according to many factors including a tumor type, a stage of disease, a patient's age, his level of health and his wishes. The main cancer therapy methods include the surgical method, radiation therapy and medication treatment. Last years the hormone cancer therapy has been frequently used especially in the case of breast cancer. It consists of hormonal suppression. In the case of hormone-sensitive tumors this method is very effective.

Wouldn't it be great if we could clone specific parts of our bodies? That way if one area in our body gets ill, we can swap it out with a disease-free substitute. In general there are many official and alternative methods of cancer treatment. Almost every day the scientists offer some new cancer therapy. One of the new and possibly most promising methods of cancer treatment is gene therapy. Clinical genetics is not sufficiently developed area and not all the fundamental laws and mechanisms of genetics are investigated. But there are some successive gene treatment trials and the main vectors in gene therapy are defined. Today there are several types of gene therapy.