The survival rate after Breast Cancer has increased to 20 years without local or distant metastasis thanks to modern chemotherapy and targeted pharmaceutical drugs. Before modern advances in cancer treatment, surgery was always the first line of treatment. However, in spite of removing the tumour and in the case of breast cancer, the breast itself, the recurrence of the cancer at another site, had doctors befuddled. Interestingly, as breast cancer treatment evolved over the...

  Chemotherapy is essentially a rigorous treatment, and can have severe side-effects. However, chemotherapy in early stages of cancer is found to be very effective, which makes enduring the side-effects worth it. Chemotherapy uses drugs to treat cancer or cope with cancer related side-effects. Cancer cells multiply and divide at a much faster rate than normal cells. In general cancer treatments aim at killing these cancer cells. While Radiation Therapy and Surgery target a specific...

  Advanced therapy has made it possible to place the radiation only to the parts that need to be treated and this reduces exposure of healthy tissue to radiation. Radiation Therapy is one of the crucial aspects of treating cancer for cure, control and managing pain related to the advanced cancer. However, it is not the only method. There are several factors that the oncologist will consider before prescribing Radiation Therapy to a patient such...

  Those who smoke tobacco on a daily basis are putting themselves at risk of cancer. Cancer is definitely not good news. But there is good news in the vicinity. For some of the most common types of Cancer, there are early screening tests that can help detect the disease in an early stage. When detected earlier, there is more scope for treatment, which increases chances of survival. Now that is definitely good news. You...

  Breast Cancer screening does not necessarily have to be done only if there are noticeable symptoms. Women over 40 years of age must consult with their healthcare provider regarding the same. Breast Cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in women. Increased awareness of the condition has helped reduce the number of deaths related to breast cancer. Nevertheless, it is important to keep spreading the word and ensuring easy access to...

  The goal of radiation therapy is to stop the spread of cancer by killing the cancer cells and shrinking the tumour An abnormal growth of cells that gets out of control, leads to a cancer. More and more such abnormal cells stick together to form a mass of tissue that is called a tumour. Whether this tumour is fatal (malignant) or benign, is what a biopsy will confirm. In the case of malignant tumours,...