What are three ways which cancer is treated?

Answer 1

Get radiation treatments. It kills off all the cells around the cancer, and hopefully, it gets the bad ones.

At a cellular level, cancer can be explained rather easily. Bascially what happens is that two particular genes in one of the millions of cells you have in your body have a malfunction. There is a gene in your cells that controls cell growth and a gene that basically tells your genes when to stop multiplying. What happens is that the gene that controls cell growth and division (making new cells) gets jammed in the "ON" position, making cells without stopping. Then the gene that tells the cell to stop making new cells gets jammed in the "OFF" position and you have new cells being made constantly without being stopped, eventually making a tumor of some sort.

So this can be treated either with radiation treatment, or medically prescribed drugs. There are other forms of cancer that need to be cured in other ways though.

Answer

In answering this question one needs strict definition of what is meant by the term "cellular". Normally this term is used to descirbe the components of the cell. There can be very little difference between "normal" and cancerous cells, however high grade tumours tend to show changes in their cells which can be picked up by trained histologists changes such as diskaryotic cells. Using these changes a surgeon can remove the tissues (made from cells) which have become cancerous and if possible a certain amount of the surrounding tissue where the cellular changes maybe occurring but are not yet visable. If the cancer is judged to be of a high grade then lymph node removal from the area may also be considered as the cells made have spread (metastasis). Histology of the cancer can give you information about the prognosis and be used to determine the best course of treatment. I would class anything beyond histology as not true cellular Biology.

The term cellular can be used more loosly to refer to anything pertaining to the cell. The loose definition would include genetic and biochemical using this definition all cancer treatments are designed to remove or kill cancerous cells. Chemical methods are designed to target rapidly dividing cells and so have some side effects such as killing the rapidly dividing cells which make hair.

To find a treatment for cancer scientist look for differences between cancerous and non-cancerous cells. These differences will be very slight, they have to be so small as to not be detected by the patients immune system. Some research is being put into looking at using antibodies to target cancerous cells which can then be tagged with a drug to kill the cell.

Answer 2

Radiotherapy is the use of ionizing radiation to burn and damage all tissues that it encounters. By carefully directing narrow beams of radiation, or using implanted magic bullet techniques, and using careful PET / CAT / MRI scans, the treatment can be directed as precisely as possible at only the malignant cancerous cell colonies (tumors).

Ionizing radiation is one cause of cancer. Radiation is electromagnetic in nature, and the rays are made up of virtual / theoretical physics particles called photons (think of photograph). The wavelength or frequency of the radiation determines the per-photon energy present. Ionizing radiation is such that a single photon virtual particle is able to provide enough energy (K-thermal) to break a chemical bond. Physics has determined that very high frequency electromagnetic radiation is of the ionizing kind. Thus, ionizing radiation can break and disrupt DNA and RNA molecular bonds to cause mutations. Chemical mutagenic compounds (certain types of toxins) can also cause such scrambling of the DNA and RNA molecules. When these mutations are not viable, the cell dies, but when these mutations are haphazardly (mistakenly) repaired by enzyme actions within the cell, the result can be a viable, but diseased cell that can reproduce itself, thereby causing the disease cancer.

The trophoblastic thesis of cancer is that the body's own repair system can go out of control and no longer respond to natural chemical and electrical signals of the body to stop its actions. When a bruise, scrape, bone fracture, burn, toxic poisoning, or other damage happens, chemical and electrical signals trigger the body's immune and repair system to kick into action. Stem cells, blastema cells, mast cells go to the damaged area, and via gene expression replace damaged tissues. Malignant cancer (neoplastic) cells are said to be undifferentiated cells just like the previously mentioned repair cells. These cancer cells have a aerobic fermentation metabolism whereas normal cells have an oxygen oxidation metabolism controlled by each cell's mitochondria. Oxidization is a more efficient producer of cell energy, whereas fermentation is a less efficient producer of cell energy. Part of the chemical signaling to trigger the body's repair system and cause growth are hormones. Human growth factor and estrogen hormones are key. There are 3 types of estrogen. One of the most powerful of the three types of estrogen can trigger normal cells to turn into cancer cells. Under normal circumstances, the repair system shuts down, and the wound or damage is repaired successfully, but when something goes wrong from some sort of mitigating influence the process does not halt, and cancer results.

Tumors are fast gowning and are the body's repair system trying to isolate diseased or damaged cells to prevent their spreading elsewhere. A tumor consists of both normal cells, and malignant cancer cells.

Diseased malignant cancer cells are less effected by ionizing radiotherapy than normal cells so that when radiation is used to burn a tumor, the tumor may shrink by an amount proportional to the amount of non-cancerous normal cells present. This means that all the normal cells have been killed off, leaving the remaining cancer cells intact to continue to grow and spread. A tumor shrinkage of 80% usually means that the remaining 20% are pure cancer cells.

The body grows its blood supply and most of its immune system components by the bone marrow. If cancer of the blood, leukemia, is the disease that the patient has, then typically a Rockefeller-allopathic treatment would destroy all of the bone marrow by radioactive particle emissions, then try to get an exact blood-typed donor match of bone marrow cells to re-populate the person's system. This can result in the immune system being suppressed and the patient being predisposed to catching all sorts of Infectious Diseases to which they may have been previously immune.

Answer 3

Chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery whererver possible. Also avoidance of anything that might aggravate the cancer such as the wrong diet, over-exhertion etc. It can be helped by homeopathic treatment as well, and a positive attitude is also important.

Answer 4

In this day and age there are many different methods to treating cancer. More traditional methods include radiation and chemo treatment.

Answer 5

Eat a lot of cinnamon if your trying to get rid of skin cancer there is this eggplant cream it helps cure skin cancer and I'm not joking even a doctor recommended it seriously!!