Cancer cases worldwide are set to jump by more than 75 per cent by 2050. Making treatment safer, more tolerable, and having access to drugs are ways to improve survival rates, says cancer specialist Dr Peter Ang from OncoCare Cancer Centre.
Crippling nausea, frailty and severe hair loss may be improved with new cancer therapies. Despite decades of research, significant advancements in treatment and remarkable breakthroughs in our understanding of the disease, the quest for a universal cure for cancer continues to elude us. Why is it so hard to find a cure for cancer?Put simply, cancer cannot be treated with a single cure as it is not a single disease and doesn’t have a single cause.
Improvements in cancer diagnosis, treatment and prevention continue to lead the way in reducing cancer deaths. The best odds for survival is detecting the cancer early in a premalignant stage so that it can be removed.Historically, the primary treatment is to remove the cancer lump with surgery or destroy it with radiation therapy.
Our immune system comprises the white blood cells, the organs, and tissues of the lymph system, like the bone marrow. The immune system is massively powerful and the ability to harness this has seen significant improvements in survival rates in melanoma, kidney, lung, breast, and other cancers. Immunotherapy is also a promising option for a triple-negative breast cancer, a particularly aggressive group of invasive breast cancer that is oestrogen receptor-negative, progesterone receptor-negative and HER2-negative.
Immunotherapy medication is given as an intravenous infusion every few weeks. It can be associated with side effects although they may not be typical of what most patients would associate with chemotherapy such as nausea, vomiting or hair loss.
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