Cancer Resources

Despite all the medical research work and therapeutic advances behind the treatment of cancer, from surgery, chemical to radiation solutions, the cellular anomaly remains a deadly disease that, in 2007 alone, killed 7.6 million people worldwide. Once detected, cancer patients often have little prognosis to a remission and the cancer’s inevitable progressive malignancy is certain to cause death. But detected early, the chance for a cure increases.

Curing Cancer

Recognizing the cause of any disease is always the best place to start in treating it. But because cancer is a class of disease that can affect any part of the body, there is no single panacea any more than there is a singular cure for all infectious diseases. While cancerous cells can be traced to DNA mutations that cause abnormal cell growth, there is really no known cure in the sense of reversing the cause.

Surgery can excise the malignant body tissue or organ, chemotherapy and radiotherapy can attack and destroy anomalous malignant cells, but they all work to treat the metastatic condition in the hope of arresting the spread, not the cause. Hence, it is not unusual the patients in remission can develop cancer anew after a few years. Continue reading ‘An Alternative Promise of Cancer Cure’ »

Oncologists are one is saying that brain cancer is the most fatal of all cancer types.  Once diagnosed, the prognosis for remission is almost always nil.  For sure there have been documented cases of remission as in most other cancer types.  But they remain a negligible statistical minority.

Brain cancer or brain tumor is medically referred to as intracranial solid neoplasm, whether within the brain or central spinal canal.  There are various classifications such as primary (originating in the brain) or secondary (metastasized from cancers in other organs) and can either be benign or malignant.

And among malignant types, there’s Glioblastoma multiforme which is the deadliest with a 12-18 month prognosis, while Oligodendrogliomas is an incurable progressive type that can last for 12 years before death occurs.

Treating Brain Tumors

A subtype of brain cancer occurring in the Medulla oblongata called Medulloblastoma has a promising prognosis for remission with chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery.  But for the other types, most patients will die within a year of diagnosis even with the conventional cancer treatment mentioned. Continue reading ‘Brain Cancer need not be Fatal’ »