What are the different types of cancer treatment?

MUMBAI, India - June 21, 2019 - PRLog -- Nanavati Hospital offers state of the art facilities with a commendable staff supervised by experienced professionals. Acknowledging the world-class services of this medical institution, we talked to some of their experts who are counted in the classification of the best doctors in India, to know about the various forms of an effective treatment which help in fighting different types of cancer. The insight from the discussion has been formulated in a standard format to provide the facilities available for treating cancers. An important point to note is the success rate they maintain with each of these treatment options against various type of cancers.

Many types of treatments are available for fighting against cancer but each of these options is selected after a detailed diagnostic assessment of the patient. Various additional factors are taken into consideration as well, experts advice in these cases are significant. The following are the treatment options against various types of cancers.

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·         Chemotherapy

Use of chemical drugs to treat cancer is basically termed as chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is one of the oldest forms of treatment when it comes to dealing with various types of cancer. In cases where surgery cannot be performed, chemotherapy often comes to the rescue. Since it uses chemical drugs for treatment, it is associated with a high risk of complications and side effects.

·         Hormone Therapy

The focus of hormone therapy is to slow down the development of cancerous cells. It is majorly used on those parts of the body which are sensitive to the hormonal changes. Majorly, prostate cancer and breast cancer are treated by Hormone Therapy.

·         Immunotherapy

If one is to look at the crux of cancer, the risk from this disease arises from the fact that the immune system of the patient is rendered ineffective. Due to this fact, immunotherapy is driven from the foundation of a biological therapy which boosts the immune system of the body and helps it fight against the disease.

·         Precision Medicine

Precision medicine is a relatively newer approach and it works in opposition to the one size fits all approach. Precision medicine is beneficial because it accurately measures the cause of cancer and likewise helps in forming an individually catered course of medication by acknowledging the difference in their genetic structure.

·         Radiation Therapy

When high doses of radiation are used to destroy the cancer cells, the process is termed as Radiation Therapy. Radiation Therapy is used often along with the process of Chemotherapy before or after the surgery, this is termed as neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy, respectively.

·         Stem Cell Transplant

To replace the damaged stem cells of the patient's body with healthy cells is one of the successful approaches for the treatment of cancer. Stem cell transplantation could be either autologous (the recipient and donor are the same people) or allogeneic (related or unrelated donor to the recipient) stem cell transplantation. In autologous stem cell transplantation, doctors remove the healthy stem cells before Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy.

·         Surgical interventions

One of the most common approaches towards treating various types of cancer is through surgical interventions. The necessity for surgical interventions has actually led to the latter's development into many modern forms which not only offers scientifically advanced ways of surgical operations but also provides an increase in the rate of successful outcomes.

Depending upon the type and stage of cancer the patient is suffering through and its impact on their health is considered for selecting the mode of surgery, it can be performed in in a variety of ways such as reconstruction or debulking. Surgeries are also used in the form of biopsy to diagnose the type of cancer. Mainly, surgery can serve the purposes of diagnosing cancer, removing the entire tumour or some parts of it, alleviating the symptoms and side effects caused by cancer, and restoring the removed part of the body.

·         Targeted therapy

Targeted therapy works exactly like its name, it uses drugs to focus on the units which are facilitating the growth and development of cancer. The effectiveness of targeted therapy is derived from the fact that it usually does not harm the healthy surrounding cells which are present around the infected cancerous cells. The drugs used for targeted therapy are effective in destroying the cancerous cells and providing a hindrance to those signals in the body which are contributing towards the growth of these cancerous cells.

Basically, targeted therapy works in two ways, when monoclonal antibodies are used they work towards blocking a specific target in the area around the tumour whilst the small molecule drugs perform against those process which facilitates the growth of cancerous cells. On one hand, where small molecule drugs are taken in the form of pills, the monoclonal antibodies are provided in the form of intravenous injection.

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