Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Treatments for Skin Cancer- Ramy A.

Treatments for skin cancer are so various. There are three that i looked into that look pretty effective and enough to help people like bill with their benign/malignant tumor cells.

1- Surgery is one way to get rid of all or just parts of the tumor. This procedure is used to help surgically remove the tumor/ establish what stage the cancer is at/ or treating the cancer and symptoms.

2- Chemotherapy, also know as Chemo. helps stop the spread of tumors. What this is, is often times pills, Injection in the veins; muscle; abdominal; and arteries. Chemo helps work on cancerous and noncancerous tumors. Often time this even affects normal cells which may cause side effects towards the body. so any additional medicine is permitted during your therapy.

3- Radiation Therapy is a third way people fight off tumors. This is radiation that kills, prevents, or just decreases the size of tumor cells. Radiation also affects the normal cells. Luckily these normal cells are able to recover from the damage back to their normal stages of life.
  • External beam radiation- radiation sent out from a machine (outside the body) into the body to help kill of tumors.
  • Internal Radiation therapy- place sources of radiation as closely as possible to the tumor to kill off any harmful cells.


In my opinion, I think that surgically removing tumors is the best way to approach tumor cells. If necessary then i would also continue to take on radiation therapy to kill off any other tumor cells that Doctors weren't able to reach to.

2 comments:

Ramy Al-Taweel said...

http://www.ottawahospital.on.ca/sc/cancer/treat-e.asp

This was my internet resources

Nebal A. said...

I agree with ramy. Surgery may not always take out all of the cancer, which will leave you with either chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. They are both effective.