Definition of Cancer
Cancer is a group of diseases that take the shape of the tumor and attack the body and weaken the immunity, and does not stand at a certain place; it attacks the tissues adjacent to the place where it is, and hence the name of malignant tumor, may affect humans at all ages until it affects the fetus, but the risk of infection It is larger as the person progresses in age.
The treatment of cancer varies according to the stage of infection. The faster it is detected, the easier the treatment. The benign tumor is a part of the human body that remains in place and does not attack the rest of the organs and tissues of the body, but if it is not treated it is likely to turn into a malignancy. One of the causes of cancer is exposure to radiation, the use of chemicals heavily, and smoking is a cause of cancer is also caused by a mutation in the DNA.
Cancer treatment methods
Whatever the cause of cancer, it is necessary to accelerate treatment, and now the treatment is easier than before, and begins the stage of detection of cancer by taking a biopsy of the tumor in the body, and check if this tumor is benign or malignant, and ways to treat cancer:
- And surgery to remove the tumor from its place so as not to spread to the rest of the body, and this surgery gives successful results in the treatment if not spread before the start of the surgical operation, has proved this method of effectiveness in the treatment of breast cancer, especially when discovered early; By the removal of the tumor surgery process, but can not be used in the treatment of surgery in the case of leukemia. The use of chemotherapy or radiation in this case by giving the patient drugs destroy cancer cells, but the damage of this treatment that it can damage the proper tissues In the human body, due to the strength of its effect.
- Radiation therapy is done using radiation that is capable of killing cancer cells and is used either externally or internally to shed it on the tumor site. This treatment affects the healthy cells in the body, but it regains its normal state after a period of stopping radiation therapy or by giving doses at intervals So that healthy cells can restore normal activity. This type of treatment is used in most cancers such as: breast cancer, brain, leukemia, lung, uterus, and larynx.
- Directed therapy, which treats some types of cancers but is still under study and development, is done by using proteins that stop the production of abnormal proteins in cancer cells, or by using antibodies that are linked to the proteins found in cancer cells.
- It is possible to use a type of vaccine to stimulate the human immune system to resist cancer, and is useful in the treatment of cases of skin cancer and bladder.
Through the above, we find the most important methods of treatment for cancer and the most common, and often see on television products are said to be a cure for cancer, but these products, like other marketing products that do not benefit cancer patients something, so should be detected quickly if the human presence Tumor in a particular area of his body, and resort to medicine that is indispensable in the treatment of all diseases.