Cancer refers to any one of a large number of diseases characterized by the development of abnormal cells that divide uncontrollably and have the ability to infiltrate and destroy normal body tissue. Cancer can spread throughout your body. Normally cells divide and increase in a strictly regulated process called mitosis and also they die through a mechanism called apoptosis or programmed cell death. All these are controlled by the DNA in the cells. But when there is a damage to the DNA where this processes cannot be controlled it can lead to cancer.
Conventional treatment modalities concentrate on destroying the cancerous cells of the body either by surgery, cytotoxic chemotherapy or by very high frequency ionising radiation.
Unfortunately conventional treatments have serious side effects that can lead to the death of the patient. Regarding efficacy a study appeared in the respected Clinical Oncology in 2004 states that Cytotoxic Chemotherapy improves the 5 year survival rates by only 2.1% in the USA and 2.3% in Australia or roughly improves it from 60% to 62 %. The completed report can be accessed below. There are significant side effects such as hair loss, nausea, vomiting, severe pain etc. In many cases these therapies cannot destroy he cancerous cells completely and remaining cells become more tolerant to the therapies and start metastasing to different parts of the body.
Click on the article which appeared in Fortune magazine to see why despite the fact that billions of dollars are spent on the war on cancer and still we are losing it.
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