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Experimental Cancer Treatment: Three Experimental Cancer Treatment Options
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Experimental cancer treatment options generally supplement traditional cancer treatment options like chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery.
While experimental cancer treatment options can, in some cases, improve a patient's condition, for the most part they are unproven.
Experimental = Unproven
Experimental cancer treatments are not generally available at most hospitals.
Some experimental cancer treatments can be quite controversial and it may take getting quite a few second opinions before you can find a physician who will recommend you for an unproven therapy.
It should also be noted that an experimental cancer treatment that works for one cancer will not necessarily have any effect on another type of cancer. Below are three experimental cancer treatment options.
Gene Therapy
There are two major types of gene therapies. One uses adenoviruses, and the other uses enzymes in experimental cancer treatments.
Viruses made up of a double-stranded linear DNA genome and a nucleocapsid, which is a union of viral capsid proteins with viral nucleic acid, are called adenoviruses.
Adenoviruses are thought to slow down tumor growth or even stop tumor growth all together.
The experimental cancer therapy that uses enzymes, introduces those enzymes into cancer cells and makes those cells more predisposed to responding to chemotherapy.
Bacterial Treatments
Anaerobic bacteria has been used in some experimental cancer treatment.
This type of bacteria is used when chemotherapy is not working as well as it could because the cancer cells do not have a good supply of blood, and a tumor may not get much oxygen in the interior.
Using anaerobic bacteria on its own would not do much, as it would not destroy all the cancerous tissue, but in harmony with chemotherapy it is thought to be effective.
Thermotherapy
Malignant tumors are sometimes treated with localized heat therapy. Heat therapy can slow cell division and make cancer cells increasingly sensitive to radiation therapy.
Thermotherapy is applied in a number of ways. Different types of thermotherapy use focused ultrasound, pumping heated saline through catheters, induction heating and microwave heating.
There are also more experimental cancer treatments using heat, that use lasers that heat nanotubes and nanoparticles through the body.
Remember!
As stated above, experimental cancer treatment options are not proven to definitively work in the fight against cancer.
You should always talk to as many professionals as possible and get all the information about side effects and effectiveness before deciding on any therapy.
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