Cancer treatment in general has their three different aspects. The you could have surgery to remove the cancer are you could get radiation therapy when the tumor is inoperable, or you want to make sure the cancer is not coming back from the site where the tumor had been removed and chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy means mean sickly giving drugs to the patient to control the cancer. The chemotherapy could be anything simple. A simple as prednisone asteroid are could be as complicated as giving something intravenously which goes and attacks the cancer cells and kills them. We are always interested in controlling the cancer by using the patient's own immune defense if at all possible so that there are ways to argument the patient's own immunity against the cancer cells.

We could have in selected cancer actually vaccines against the Kansas L to boost the patient's own immune system. To recognize the cancer cells and destroy them that had the another form offer immunotherapy, here you actually have more prone antibody which are targeted against the cancer cells that are given intravenously.

To the patient these are humanized monoclonal antibody the majority of time so the to not have any side effects from getting this infusion. But these monoclonal antibodies could directly and destroy the Kansas up, this is another type of immunotherapy where did the antibodies produced outside up the patient's. Party and given back to the patient there is a new term that is used now call targeted therapy want this really implies is that these drugs are specifically targeting some enzymes up routine.

Which are uniquely expressed in the cancer cells so that they can when the the drugs are able to destroy the cancer cells by attacking their enzymes are the protein. Within the Kansas I'll so this is called targeted therapy. The new treatments which are common it is not only helping young patients but is also helping the elderly patients. So they can said now the treatment that is offer to the patients have become much more patient-friendly. Much more acceptable could be given to an elderly patient without causing too many side effects.

So I think you know patient should not feel like that, because they have been told that there can set that it is all doom and gloom. Model programs have been made that have been improvement in life expectancy in many different cancer, and the treatment have become very humane, and also lard of development and the supportive care area, also improve the quality of life.

I generally recommend the patient when they come to see me if they do use the internet to go to cancer dotnet to get information about the cancer the reason I first custom. To go to cancer dotnet it it is because all the the American Society of Clinical Oncology where the professional body of all the oncologist and hematologist.

Who practice in this country dead view is expressed that, and the information is very up to date because the cancer treatment is constantly changing. But most important i have to tell the patient is go there to get information it is not a consultancy. You don't have to make a decision what kind of treatment you want but this helps you when you go see their. Cancer specialist to ask questions and understand what he said talking to you about that putting Stevens with I'll I'm.