Cancer diseases are diseases that happen when abnormal cells grow and divide uncontrollably in the body. The name of the cancer is based on part of the body that cancerous cells grow. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death. The symptoms of cancer vary, depending on what types of cancer you have and how severe the cancer is. Most patients of cancer will suffer from fatigue, thickening or lump that can be felt under the skin, skin colour changes, weight changes, bruising, bleeding, and many more.
When you find some symptoms that concern you, you need to make an appointment with a cancer doctor. Even though you don’t find or experience any symptoms, you can arrange an appointment with doctors, if you belong to the high risk group. You can have cancer screening to diagnose cancer. The earliest you diagnose a cancer, the best you have to cure the cancer. The doctor may have you to take some physical exam, laboratory tests, imaging tests, and biopsy to diagnose the cancer. When the cancer is diagnoses, the doctor will do other steps to determine the stage of the cancer.
Some cancer doctors may offer different kinds of treatments on different patients, but in fact, in most cases the medical treatments are the same. Surgery will be done as a way to remove the cancer from the body. On certain stages of cancer, chemotherapy may be chosen, which is applied by using drugs to kill the cancer cells.
High-powered energy beams may also be used to kill the cancer cells, and the cancer disease process of treatment is called radiation therapy. There are two types of radiation therapy: external beam therapy (by placing a machine outside your body) and brachytherapy (by placing a machine inside your body). Another treatment is stem cell transplant by using your own stem cells or stem cells for a donor. There are still some other medical options to cure the cancer, including immunotherapy, hormone therapy, targeted drug therapy, and many more.
