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(11 Feb 2009)

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There is no natural cure or remedy that is easily available at hand for cancer. There are modern medicinal methods you can follow to cure it, and there are certain steps you can take to try and prevent it. But there is no category in between which constitutes a cure parse.


There are four or five methods which can be successfully used to eradicate cancer from the human body. The one most popularly employed is chemotherapy. This is one way of eradicating cancerous cells from your body.


Drugs are injected or administered orally and these drugs act as destroyers of carcinogenic cells from the body, the treatment is so strong and intense that there are several side effects that accompany chemotherapy. The commonest of these are weight, hair and bone loss. Some drugs can also be topically applied under the aegis of chemotherapy, but this rarely the only method followed. It is usually accompanied by injections and oral administrations as well.

 

Radiation is another commonly employed method to treat cancer. This is when the cancerous part of the body is directly exposed to x-rays for prolonged periods in order to kill the cancerous cells. This method will also act in preventing further growth and expansion of cancer cells. Although this is an effective method, it has some dangerous side effects. Some kinds of cancer may also be physically removed with the help of surgery. These are usually the kinds of cancer that do not spread rampantly. Some types of skin cancers come in this category, as do those which are present in the body in the form of a tumor. Some types of tumors are those that transmit the disease to the rest of the body, while some keep it contained. While surgery may work well on the latter, it may not always be the best way to go for the former kind.

answered by M W on 11 Feb 2009, 11:24:16

 

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