“CCC” Cancer Treatment Model A. Theoretical Basic Cancer is a systemic disease with tumors as a local manifestation of the disease. Once cancer occurs in a person, cancerous cells will be found in the whole body. Surgical removal of tum...
Cancer microvessel Nano-material Blockage, CNB When given the general chemo therapy, chemo medicine will go through all over the body. The drug distribution is not able to be neglected for the normal organ, however is limited for cancer. Fo...
BACKGROUD During the last more than 10 years there has been a rapidly increasing understanding of immunosurveillance and appreciation of the mechanisms by which tumors escape its notice. This has led to the development of promising new stra...
Short Introduction Seed implantation with iodine-125 or palladium-103 seeds (brachytherapy) is a highly effective treatment for patients with cancer. Brachytherapy requires no surgical incision, offers patients a shorter recovery time, and...
Short introduction Cryosurgery is a novel technique for treatment of cancer which has been approved by the United States' Food AND Drug Administration (FDA) in 1998 and China's SFDA in 1999. Fuda Cancer Hospital-Guangzhou has used the techn...
Short Introduction Thermal injury to cells begins at 42 ℃ Only 8 minutes at 46 ℃ is needed to kill malignant cells, and 51 ℃ can be lethal after only 2 minutes. At temperatures above 60 ℃ intracellular proteins are denatured (killed...
Short Introduction Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a special procedure for cancer which combines a drug (called a photosensitizer or photosensitizing agent) with a specific type of light to kill cancer cells Advantages Relatively selective an...
Short Introduction Principle By injecting pure alcohol (i.e., ethanol) into the tumor bed, blood flow to the cancer is blocked. The alcohol induces tumor destruction by drawing water out of the tumor cells (dehydrating them) and denaturing...
Traditional Chinese medicine has a long history and has been proven to be particularly complementary for the treatment of variety of diseases including cancer. Experimental and clinical studies have demonstrated that traditional Chinese med...
Like normal body cells, cancerous cells are fed by blood vessels. A physician typically inserts a catheter at a point in the groin to access the femoral artery, although he or she may sometimes use an artery from the arm. While monitoring t...
