* Surgery: Surgical removal of the tumor and adjacent lymph nodes.
* radiotherapy
o (takes active thyroid iodine on) of radioactive material
+ by radioactive iodine
o with X-rays
o with electrons or neutrons
o with proton therapy, or ion radiation (protons and ions, which protects the tumor surrounding tissue) o
with microwaves (heating of the affected tissue)
* o cytostatic drug treatment
(Chemotherapy), cancer cells are prevented from reproducing or stopped
o hormone therapy, such as testosterone withdrawal in prostate cancer
o inhibition of blood vessel growth (cancerous tissue attracts blood vessels to grow toward the cancer tissue to supply it. )
o immunotherapy (increasing the immune response to tumor cells) immunological cancer therapy
* radioimmunotherapy
o This form of therapy is the development of immunotherapy. Radioimmunotherapy combines the targeted mode of action of immunotherapy / antibody therapy with the high efficacy of radiotherapy. When an antibody radioimmunotherapy out (Ibritumomab) a cancer cell-destroying radiation source precisely to the cancer cells. In contrast to pure immunotherapy in radioimmunotherapy are not only destroys the cells at the tumor surface, but also the cells inside the tumor mass.
* Palliative treatment and the promotion of quality of life
o administration of analgesics
o improvement of the general state of pain treatment
o Adequate nutrition
o inhibition of bone resorption
o increase blood production in bone marrow
o Symptomatic treatments such as dilatation of strictures by dilatation or insertion of stents
o Physiotherapy (especially Respiratory therapy in lung cancer)
* Alternative treatment methods, including the mistletoe therapy or the use of amygdalin. Both are controversial. But the fact is that many successful cytotoxic drugs (such as vincristine) were originally found in plants. These cytotoxic drugs are, however, highly pure and highly concentrated and therefore not "herbal" or to compare similar.
* There are experiments to treat cancer with viruses.
The unsatisfactory cure rates for certain tumors and the side effects of established treatments often cause fear and despair among those affected and their families from. This may lead to turning unconventional treatments, which in many cases lacking evidence of effectiveness, and their bases mostly a scientific review does not stand up. Some of them are rejected as "miracle cure" while others are accepted as complementary therapies but also by orthodox medicine.
Even if - unfortunately often - a complete cure can not be achieved is to be considered, that is to be considered for a 75-year-old cancer patient a life time extension of 1 or 2 years ago as a very good result (older cancer patients often die on anything other than the cancer), while a 45-year-old breast cancer patient only a 10-year relapse freedom is assessed as "very good" - because they really now have a much higher life expectancy.
In developed countries, 75 of 100 surviving children with cancer, while cancer-related mortality rate among children in developing countries with two thirds (The Lancet).
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