Clinical Oncology & Radiation Therapy

Cancer Therapy

There are more than 200 types of cancer, including Breast cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, Prostate cancer, and lymphoma. Symptoms and Treatment varies depending on the type of Cancer. Some people with cancer will have only one treatment. But most people have a combination of treatments, such as surgery with chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. The Anticancer therapies include Surgical therapy, Chemotherapy, Adjuvant therapy, Neoadjuvant therapy, Palliative therapy, Immunotherapy, Hormonal therapy, Radiotherapy, Nutritional therapy, Phototherapy. Phototherapy / proton beam therapy is the most advanced among all the therapies. All Anticancer agents act by disturbing cell multiplication or normal functioning, DNA synthesis or chromosomal migration, and by blocking or changing RNA and protein metabolism. There are various techniques used in the treating the cancers such as various surgeries were used to done for the treating or removing the cancer cells. Various therapies has been followed by the implementation of the new drug by clinical trials results , or by passing the cell under some radiations or radioactive waves or by taking some sort of medicine or dealing with the alteration in the genetic material or by some sort of particular organ transplant.