Types of cancer

Gene Therapy & Cancer Cells Gene therapy is often defined as a treatment that uses genes to cure or prevent diseases. Genes, DNA, and protein are all involved with each other, therefore, in many immune diseases, if one fails your whole immune system could eventually fail. This treatment is relatively new; hence it is still a pretty risky experimentation since it involves getting genes into cancer cells. Gene Therapy is often involved in serious cancer cell treatments; its main purpose is to try…

Radiation Therapy is a word many people with cancer hear on a weekly basis (need better introduction sentence). Radiation Therapy is used as a cancer treatment for more than half of the people diagnosed with cancer (1). Radiation therapy is used to destroy cancer cells but it can also damage healthy cells and tissues which causes side effects. We often hear how effective radiation therapy is as a treatment for many types of cancer but we usually do not hear about the side effects many patients…

Cancer is a condition where abnormal cells grow and divide or normal cells divide at an accelerated pace more times than they should. Cancer.gov describes cancer as follows “Cancer is the name given to a collection of related diseases. In all types of cancer, some of the body’s cells begin to divide without stopping and spread into surrounding tissues.” The human body is a marvelous machine. It is designed from top to bottom to operate at optimum efficiency and this requires the periodic and…

Cancer is the leading cause of death in the world and causes more than 13 percent of deaths each year (Gale). Cancer is a term for a disease that can take place in any part of the body. Doctors have come up with multiple risk factors that can lead to the development of cancer and a number of successful treatment and prevention strategies, many types of cancer can’t be cured and much still remains a mystery (Gale). There are many risk factors that are often linked to cancer. External factors…

Targeted Cancer Therapy Since researchers learn about some of the differences that help cancer cells grow and thrive, it led them to “target” these differences through the development of drugs. Targeted therapy is basically a cancer treatment that uses medical drugs in curing the patient (medical drugs such as: Imatinib (Gleevec), Gefitinib (used in certain lung cancers), and Erlotinib (usually used pancreatic cancer). Clinical trials are performed in order to see whether targeted cancer therapy…

Cancer is predicted to eventually surpass heart disease and become the leading cause of death in the United States. In 2010, we had a rate of 171 cancer deaths per 100,000 people. It is projected that the actual number of cancer patients dying will continue to increase steadily each year. Cancer statistics guide researchers towards new ways of preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer. Five-year relative survival rate is the percentage of patients who have not died from their cancer five years…

murder, drowning, overdosing, and illnesses. Then the number one reason is cancer. Leukemia is the 3rd leading deadliest cancer and kills 160 people each day, more than six people per hour and 58,000 people per year. Leukemia is a really bad disease and kills many people each year. Leukemia is cancer of the blood cells. There are also many symptoms to leukemia. You also don’t know if you will survive or not when you have the cancer leukemia. Leukemia is usually thought of as a children’s…

Melanoma is a type of cancer that is considered one among the most dangerous. Melanoma traces are usually found over the skin, but rarely it can even be found in the eye or even in the internal organs. The main cause of Melanoma is the direct exposure to the ultraviolent (UV) rays. Reducing tanning from sun or from tanning lamps can curtail the chance from Melanoma. For past decades, recovery from Melanoma was a nightmare. But later, as science and technology improved, many drugs were introduced…

There are many forms of cancer treatment. One of the most common treatment types is chemotherapy. Chemotherapy was previously defined as the use of chemicals, either intravenously or in pill form, to kill cancer cells. Radiation, also mentioned before, is a common treatment. Through the study of a little boy’s experience with radiation, positives and negatives of this treatment will be drawn. Jonathan Alava was a child who had cancer and underwent a special radiation treatment: proton therapy…

The medical use of radioactive isotopes for cancer treatment can be classified as radiation therapy. The radiation that specific isotopes give off are utilized for effecting cancer cells. First of all, what is radiation? Radiation is energy that is carried by waves of streams of particles. The energy from radiation damages the genes (DNA) in the cancer cells. The damage done to the cells prevent them from growing and dividing, and often cause them to die off. Nearby normal and healthy cells can…