Cancer Cure News 2017: New Medical Revolution for Cancer Treatment Expected in Five to 10 Years
Modern medicine may have helped lessen the fatalities caused by Cancer in the last few years, but there is still no definitive cure for the disease up until now.
Most Cancer treatments are still a hit or a miss, but there have been significant results with modern remedies as there is now a recorded 50 percent survival rate in recent years, from only 24 percent during the 1970s.
With its different types, Cancer remains hard to cure and that is why most treatments are a hit or a miss because it would also depend on the type and stage it is in, although most agree that early detection is a big factor for successfully treating Cancer.
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Modern medicine, however, promises better types of Cancer treatment with each passing year. According to Professor Karol Sikora, the former head of the World Health Organization's cancer program, a medical revolution may happen regarding cancer in the "next five to 10 years." This was stated in an interview the doctor had with The Independent.
However, he cautioned that the new medical breakthrough cannot guarantee a "cure-all" treatment for cancer, but it is rather "a much better predictive way of knowing which drugs to give to which patients."
Furthermore, Dr. Sikora explained that the treatment is designed to convert the disease into a long-term chronic illness, but a more manageable one. "Most patients with cancer tend to be in their 50s or 60s. If they live another 20 or 30 years, they would effectively live a normal lifespan," he adds.
Meanwhile, a type of treatment is also being developed by a research group led by Professor Matozaki Takashi from the Kobe University using antibodies that are found in macrophages. These antibodies could reportedly engulf and destory cancerous cells and therefore eliminate them fully out of the patient.
Takashi and his team's discovery can reportedly be used to develop a new type of treatment for cancer in the near future.
