Medicine and Cancer

Human civilization has been greatly threatened by the introduction of Cancer as a chronic disease.Though the medicine and medical sciences has developed so much,full treatment of cancer is still at large.Few cancers are curable,if found out in initial stage.But cancers are usually noticed only in second stage or final stage of infection ,which makes the treatment complex or sometimes incurable.Primary stage is curable,last two have less chance of curing.Treatment is very expensive and people have less knowledge about this Killer disease,which makes more people to die every second.
Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body,also called Malignant Cells
Types of Cancer-

• Skin Cancer-caused by the exposure to the UltraVoilet,Gamma rays emitted by Sun or Radioactive elements
• Lung Cancer-caused by the exposure or inhaling of dust,smoke Especially from Smoking habit
• Leukemia/Blood cancer-caused by the dramatic increased number of White Blood Corpuscles which engulfs Red Blood Corpuscles, disturbing the balance between WBC and RBC in blood
• Female Cancer- includes Breast cancer,Uterine Cancer
• Lymphomas
• Head and Neck Cancer
• Bone Tumor /Bone Cancer
• Digestive Cancer
• Prostate Cancer

Treatment:

Chemotherapy- Use of differnt anti-cancer drugs/ chemicals:

• Altretamine(Hexalen)- for treatment of advance Ovarian Cancer
• Asparaginase(Elspar)-for treatment of refractory acute lymphocytic leukemia in combination with other drugs
• Bleomycin(Blenoxane)-for treatment of Testicular Cancer
• Chloambucil(Leukeran)-for treatment of Breast and ovarian Cancer
• Cisplatin(Platinol)-Head and Neck Cancer
• Cyclophosphamide(Cytoxan)- for treatment of  Lung Cancer
• Ethinyl estradiol(Estinyl)- for treating advance breast cancer in Post menopausal women, Prostate Cancer
• Methotrexate, Fluorouracil, Dexorubicin, Paclitaxel are also used in the treatment of the various types of cancer

Radiotherapy- this therapy uses emission of different radioactive rays such as gamma rays,beta rays in controlled manner to kill the malignant cells in the infected organ.