A breakthrough in cancer treatment awaits medicine
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February 4 - Cancer Day, despite all the advances in science and medicine, the incidence of cancer continues to grow in the world today, but nevertheless, significant results have been achieved in this area.
Specialists note that the current situation with oncological morbidity can be called catastrophic with certainty, and every day thousands of new patients hear the diagnosis of cancer. According to forecasts, in the future the situation will change little, in addition, the number of patients will increase (in almost 15 years in 15 years), unless there are certainly significant changes in the treatment and diagnosis of cancer.
Most people represent the process of cancer treatment as a standard set of activities - surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. Of course, for all and every word cancer, chemotherapy, etc. Sound horrific, especially for people who first encounter this problem.
Today, a new type of therapy is being tested, called immuno-oncology, and consists of using drugs that strengthen the immune system and thereby help fight the disease.
This area has been studied by specialists for a long time already, and the results are simply amazing, albeit in isolated cases. For example, in one of the small groups of patients, scientists managed to achieve a complete regression of metastases, which for many years did not succumb to any other kind of therapy. But only a small number of patients reacted positively to the treatment, and in order for immuno-oncology to be widely used as the main treatment method, experts are required to conduct more extensive studies.
But still, scientists were able to find out why some people have an immune system that can recognize atypical cells and destroy them. As it turned out during the work, there are certain immune response blockers, but today scientists manage to cope with just a few such blocking receptors, but there are a lot of them and scientists still have a lot of work to do.
But right now you can declare a breakthrough in the field of cancer treatment.
According to experts, the chances of revolution in the therapy of cancer are quite a lot.
The new cancer treatment method has a huge potential and allows us to hope that medicine will be able to cure cancer, at least for some patients.
Today an important role in the fight against cancer is played by early diagnosis, as cancer in the early stages is better treatable and the patient has a high chance of recovery.
WHO noted that a high incidence of cancer causes significant harm to the economy of any country. In 2010 alone, more than $ 1 trillion was spent on treatment of cancer patients in the United States, in the same year worldwide, the damage was equal to the same amount.
Reducing the incidence of cancer will help quite simple and at the same time hard-to-reach activities - addressing the problem of smoking, alcohol abuse. A number of experts emphasize that the tendency to obesity, which has been observed recently in almost the whole world, also affects the number of patients with oncology. WHO calls on all countries to actively fight against smoking, alcoholism and excess weight, in particular, by restricting advertising and increasing prices.
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