Advancement in the Cancer Treatment

Cancer: It is a disease where our body cells loose ability to divide at normal rate, this abnormal growth of cells results formation of lumps or tumours in body. Depending on the stage of the cancer and condition of the patient, treatment for the disease is decided. Treatment is given either to cure the disease or to shrink the tumour size or slow down the growth of disease allowing patient to live a normal life or live symptom free if possible. General treatment options available for treating cancer include: Surgery, Chemotherapy, Radiation therapy, Immunotherapy. In this book, discusses some of the advances made in the field of cancer treatment.

Preethi is a postgraduate in Biotechnology from University of Leeds, UK. She is currently working as a Scientific Associate at one of the CRO’s in India and her interest lie in life sciences related writing.