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   Cancer

   Cancer can be treated by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, monoclonal antibody therapy or other methods. ... The use of surgery to treat cancer had poor results due to problems with hygiene.
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   Experimental cancer treatment

   Experimental cancer treatments are medical therapies intended or claimed to treat cancer (see also tumor) by improving on, supplementing or replacing conventional methods (surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, and immunotherapy).
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   Chemotherapy

   As a result, many other drugs have been developed to treat cancer, and drug development since then has exploded into a multibillion-dollar industry.
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   Cancer bacteria

   He asserted that a vaccine or anti-serum manufactured from his bacterium could be used to treat cancer patients with varying degrees of success . ... ↑ "Unproven methods of cancer management: Livingston-Wheeler therapy" (1990).
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   Gene therapy

   Broad methods ... This vector system has shown real promise in treating cancer and indeed the first gene therapy product to be licensed to treat cancer is an adenovirus.
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   Prostate cancer

   In advanced stages of prostate cancer radiation is used to treat painful bone metastases. ... These combined methods are called total androgen blockade (TAB).
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   Particle beam

   Traditional cathode-ray tube televisions and computer displays use them to scan out each image, and some radiation therapy methods use them to treat cancer.
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   Hoxsey Therapy

   The Hoxsey Therapy is also marketed over the Internet; in June 2008, the FDA National Health Fraud Coordinator noted that "There is no scientific evidence that it has any value to treat cancer, yet consumers can go online right now and find all sorts of false claims that Hoxsey treatment is effective against the disease." ... Reader's guide to alternative health methods.
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   Breast cancer treatment

   This technique is called a Mammosite and is currently undergoing clinic trials. ... Systemic therapy uses medications to treat cancer cells throughout the body.
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    Association of American Cancer Institutes

    AACI cancer centers serve as the headquarters for most of the NCI sponsored clinical trials (research studies), which incorporate more than 16,000 scientists and physician-scientists to translate promising research findings into new approaches to prevent and treat cancer.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Cancer,
• Experimental cancer treatment,
• Chemotherapy,
• Cancer bacteria,
• Gene therapy,
• Prostate cancer,
• Particle beam,
• Hoxsey Therapy,
• Breast cancer treatment,
• Association of American Cancer Institutes