Are Scientists Close to Finding Cure for Cancer?
This year, science is close to finding a cure to cancer because of a recent discovery. However, there's still a long way to go because of insufficient findings with regards to the recently discovered approaches to cancer.
Forbes reports this is the closest that science and technology have come to finding the cure to cancer. However, science will only come close to the solution if they refrain from using radiotherapy and chemotherapy, now that cancer stem cells have been discovered to be resistant to these methods of treatment.
Dr. Ray Schilling confirmed in a post from Medical Articles by Dr. Ray that "standard cancer treatment protocols" such as radiotherapy, surgery, and chemotherapy, have been inefficient in treating cancer.
Surgery only works in preventing cancer if it is conducted when the cancer is still in the early stages. Meanwhile, radiotherapy and chemotherapy have not been effective in eliminating cancer because most solid tumors contain their own cancer stem cells (CSC).
However, the apparent key method of treating the deadly disease is cancer immunotherapy, by programming certain parts of the immune system to attack it. Because cancer is rooted in the immune system, Dr. Schilling believes that immunotherapy will offer the best and most successful treatment.
Meanwhile, a new approach has been created to treat cancer with the use of low-dose lasers.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) was used to treat 20 patients with prostate cancer for five months in 2014. Out of the 20 participants, four of them had been cancer-free, while seven experienced slight recurrence and seven others had tumors that completely stopped progressing. Only two out of the 20 had not been affected by PDT.
Because of the results, immunotherapy appears to still be the best bet in curing cancer. With this method, cancer will have no opportunity to spread by eliminating the disease up to the last stem cell.
