Tumor Removal

Surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, targeted therapy (including immunotherapy such as monoclonal antibody therapy), and synthetic lethality are all options for treating cancer; these therapies are often administered separately (e.g. chemotherapy before surgery).

The location, severity, and stage of the disease, as well as the patient’s general health, all influence the therapeutic option (performance status).The most effective treatment for a patient’s specific cancer can be determined with the use of cancer genome sequencing.

There are also several cancer therapies under development. According to recent predictions, two out of every five people will develop cancer at some point in their lives.

The ideal, if seldom attained, objective of treatment is to completely eradicate the cancer without causing harm to the rest of the body, and this is frequently the case in actual practise.

Surgery can sometimes be used to do this, but its efficiency is sometimes limited by malignancies’ ability to infiltrate nearby tissue or move to distant areas through microscopic metastasis. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy can also have a deleterious impact on normal cells.