Cancer Treatment Options Forum - June 26th, 2011 - 6 Comments
Do all non skin cancers mastestize when unchecked? Does chemo pretty much stop all cancer spread?
Is radiation necessary and why? Seems like the treatments used do damage to the body, but are they successful? If not, why not? What could we do different?
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no, i dont think so.
it all comes down to nutritional therapy, chemicals, pollution, parasites and attitude and i love olive leaf extract and seaweed and bee pollen with organic honey and frequensea.
as the world is so full of chemical pollution we can only do so much for our health and well being
only melanoma does. carcinoma does not.
chemo is used for later stages of melanoma… radiation depends on the case…usually wide excision and removal of lymph nodes & chemo are enough though. it all depends on the stage of the cancer. some people have good responses to chemo, others do not… it all depends how early you catch the cancer. late stage melanoma probably can’t be cured by chemo but it can be slowed down. what we could do different is to find the cancers sooner.
monoclonal antibodies are used in chemo to help the body find metastitic cancer cells… basically, they splice the genes of a common cold with the melanoma cells and your body attacks them…the body often overlooks cancer cells (hence, why they spread so easily) but if combined with the cold virus, the body can find them more easily.
Not all non-skin cancers metastasize, but many do. Cancer is many diseases, and each cancer behaves differently. Some are very aggressive, and no amount of treatment (surgery, chemo, radiation) can stop the progression of the disease. Other cancers are slow growing and are just watched. (Prostate cancer sometimes is not treated – it depends on the patient’s age and the aggressiveness of the tumor)
There are many many different chemo drugs and regimens. Sometimes chemo can completely stop the spread of cancer, other times it is ineffective.
Some tumors are more sensitive to radiation than others. The location of the tumor also plays a role. Some tumors cannot be removed surgically, and radiation is the only option.
Yes, the treatments for cancer do a lot of damage to the body. Sometimes they are successful, and other times, not. Why? Every tumor is different, every person is different.
What could we do differently? First, prevent cancer by eliminating smoking. (But apparently, "personal choice" is more important than public health) Second, early detection is important, so we need more programs for free mammograms, colonoscopies, PSA tests, PAP smears, etc. Third, continue research into cancer treatments, so that drugs can be developed that target the tumor and don’t cause so much damage to the rest of the body.
No, not necessarily.
Except for malignant melanomas, few skin tumors metastasize. Basal cells grow locally and destroy tissues. Squamous cells may occasioannly spread to local nodes, but are not highly malignant.