Immunotherapy is a treatment that uses certain parts of a person’s immune system to fight diseases like cancer. This is a most recent treatment option modality available for cancer patients with fantastic results. Immunotherapy can be done in two ways: i. Stimulating the patient’s own immune system to work harder …
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90-70-90 Target Eliminating Cervical Cancer Initiative
Cancer is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Global Cancer Statistic (GLOBOCAN) 2020 reports 19.3 million new cases of cancer and around 10 million cancer deaths across the globe. One-half of these cancer incidences and mortality is reported to happen in Asia alone. Female breast cancer is now …
Read More »Breast Conserving Surgery with Oncoplastic Techniques
In the early days, and even today, radical mastectomy has been the practiced treatment for diagnosed breast cancer, which means that the entire breast harboring the cancer is removed, along with the underlying muscles and lymph nodes in the axillary region. This not only increased morbidity, but the person had …
Read More »Breast Cancer A Curable Disease
The word cancer evokes a rather fearful response in most of us. Breast cancer is a leading cause of death in women worldwide and is the most common form of cancer in women. For a long time, women have had the message drilled into them through various mediums that they …
Read More »Breast Cancer Sleeper Cells
Seventy percent of all breast cancers are estrogen-receptor positive, and hormone therapies are used to treat this type of breast cancer. A course of hormone therapy (either tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors) targeting estrogen receptors are given after first removing the tumor with surgery. But, about 30 percent of patients taking …
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