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Medical researchers have found prostate cancer drug that can cure the disease without undergoing surgery or chemotherapy. However, these drugs prove effective in combination with hormonal therapy and can easily restrict the progress of the disease. Different types of prescription medications have given positive results and restricted recurrence of the disease.

Prostate cancer drug has proven results of curing the disease in the advanced stage that is the metastatic stage, commonly known as the fourth stage of the disease. This latest method of curing the disease is a great relief for the patients, as they do not have to bear the pain and suffering of operation or chemotherapy.

Obviously, you will want to know about the working system of the medicine consumed orally in the form of pill or taken in the form of injection. The medication helps in controlling testosterone level that is it reduces the level of testosterone. This helps in controlling the growth and spread of the malignant tumor as testosterone helps in the growth of the tumor. Continue reading ‘Hormonal Therapy Combined With Prostate Cancer Drug Provides Quicker Relief’ »

Breast cancer treatment is usually a multi-pronged approach. The most common breast cancer treatment plan, in this order, involves surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and hormonal therapy. But there are many different types of breast cancer, so there are many variations in treatment. Also, the stage of breast cancer (0 through IV) will determine which treatments are best.

Surgery

Surgery is often the first step in breast cancer treatment. Removal of the lump and the cancerous tissue is imperative in most cases to keep the cancer from spreading any further. Depending on the stage (which is judged by the size and the spread of the disease) a woman with breast cancer may have a mastectomy or a lumpectomy.

A mastectomy is removal of the entire breast, where a lumpectomy saves the majority of breast tissue but removes only the lump itself and the very nearby affected breast tissue. A doctor will recommend which is the safest course of action for each type of cancer. Continue reading ‘Breast Cancer Treatment’ »