Cancer & Latest Advancements in its Treatment

Cancer is a type of disease that occurs due to the abnormal growth of cells in a particular area of your internal organs. Cancer slowly spread to other parts of the body when not analyzed in the beginning stages. There are more than 100 types of cancer and is classified according to the cell by which a particular cancer is born. The common symptoms of signs of cancer are abnormal bleeding, rapid weight loss, lump, unstoppable coughing, and bowel movements change. 

Following are few of the cancer categories that start with particular cell types: 

• Carcinoma 
• Leukemia 
• Melanoma 
• Multiple Myeloma 
• Sarcoma 
• Lymphoma, and much more 

Cancer Types 

There are almost hundred cancer types which can occur in any human beings. Following are few of the most common types of cancer that affect human beings: 

• Appendix Cancer 
• Adrenocortical Carcinoma 
• Bile Duct Cancer 
• Breast Cancer 
• Bladder Cancer
• Colorectal Cancer 
• Childhood Cervical Cancer 
• Eye Cancer and the list goes on. 

Advancements in the Cancer Treatment 

As the technology is advancing at rapid speed, medical researchers all over the world are finding new ways for the cancer treatment. As a result, over the past few years, they have come up with better cancer treatment programs. Following are few of the cancer treatment techniques that can bring the revolution in cancer therapy: 

Molecularly Targeted Therapy 

It is being considered as the next generation cancer treatment mechanism in the medical science. There are drugs which are created at the molecular level, such that they can directly attack the diseased cells of a particular cancer type. Also, the drugs can identify the molecules which cause specific cancer in the human body. 

Paving the Way: Gleevec 

Gleevec can be used for treating Chronic Myeloid Leukemia, a rare type of cancer caused due to excessive growth of white blood cells, or WBCs. According to researchers, it is also effective for treating GIST, a rare type of gastrointestinal cancer. 

These are just a few therapies that show the advancement in the treatment of cancer. There is still a long way to go, and as the medical science advances, more new techniques are going to be discovered.