2007-02-13 19:34:42 · 6 answers · asked by young_marktwo 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
There are several (because the strategy is different for each cancer) new cures (drugs and other types) that become available each year. Go through the experimental trials announced by NIH (and other institutions) and you will see the progress (which is tremendous, no matter what you hear in internet forums !) that is done on this subject. Ex.: if your kid was diagnosed with accute leukemia in 1985, he had 50% chances of remission. Success rate is now around 85% for most leukemia types.
There are now new, less destructive strategies in progress :
1- Drugs that keep a tumor from growing its own blood vessels, and results in a solid tumor choking itself (this is in phase III clinical, very close to general application; high success rate on brain tumors)
2- Drugs that keep circulating cancer cells from sticking to organs, and thus protect against metastasis, which is actually how cancer ends up killing you (first tests, still in development)
3- Drugs which hinder the control of CO2 within a tumor, which also result in the tumor choking itself (beginning)
4- Immuno-stimulating drug (very promising, ... just beginning) that would help your immune system get rid of cancer cells.
And I'm not talking about hormonal treatments of breast, endometrial, ovarian and prostate cancers (the specialty of my institute).
2007-02-14 02:52:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi
If the situation is not crucial then it has high chances and possiblities for the disease to be cured and you can also visit the link below to know more about cancer and the treatments that are handled for the treatment of cancer.
http://www.canceronline.biz/
http://www.canceronline.biz/treatment.html
2007-02-16 02:07:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a cancer (like not blood cancer or anything) and get it treated early enough, you can be cured!
2007-02-14 07:28:26 · answer #3 · answered by Jennifer ¥ 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the FDA does not call any non-medicine a cure. some say there are alternative medicines that cure some types of cancer, im sure drug companies do all they can to keep them hush hush.
2007-02-14 03:45:04 · answer #4 · answered by graphix 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
theyre finding new ways of treating cancer everyday.
2007-02-17 19:54:05 · answer #5 · answered by duc602 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am the first to successfully use this cure. Is that new enough?
http://geocities.com/cure.cancer/
2007-02-14 12:04:03 · answer #6 · answered by BCC 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋