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The dream of curing cancer is no longer a dream. Alternative cancer cures are being hushed because a drug company wants no competition. The foremost step to curing cancer is to get as far away from American pharmaceutical medicine as possible! The horrible truth is that curing cancer is no longer about the cure or the patient, but about greed and politics. For instance, doctors prescribe high cost treatments that haven't been tested or uncertain in the effectiveness of curing cancer, and in some circumstances are, without doubt, cancerous themselves.
Cancer is an insidious and horrid disease that claims the lives of thousands of people each year. Radiation and medication can help solve the problem, but surgery cannot be put out of the question when it comes to treating cancer. As such, there are different ways to classify surgery according to its intent: from the location and risk of the surgery to the urgency of the operation to be conducted. However, the arguably most important basis for classifying a surgery is its intent or purpose.
Each surgery has its own objective, whether to positively identify cancer or to make life easier for a terminally-ill patient. And these objectives can be loosely classified into four stages of progression:
Diagnose
A surgery to diagnose cancer is explorative in nature, and has three primary conditions that need to be fulfilled before diagnostic surgery will even be considered: when a doctor needs to know what is going on in your body, when standard diagnosis procedures yield inconclusive or unsatisfactory results, and when the threat to your body is great and imminent.
The biopsy for cancer involves taking tissue samples from suspected cancerous regions to determine whether or not the cells are malignant. MRI's, ultrasound and mammography can all help raise suspicion for cancer, but only a biopsy will determine for certain whether you have cancer or not.
Prevent
An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. This is a common saying in the health and medical sector, but sometimes that ounce can be equal to or more than the pound; especially when you are given the choice to disfigure yourself or to extend your life.
Cancer has a bad habit of sneaking up on people and taking them by surprise. A woman whose family has a strong history of breast or ovarian cancer is at high risk of developing it herself, and she is given the choice to have surgery or take the risk of developing cancer. Either way will not yield pretty results, and the final decision will rest upon the patient's shoulders.
Cure
When cancer is detected and confirmed, drastic measures will be taken to preserve the life of the patient. And when that happens, the scalpel, laser and liquid nitrogen then become the tools to remove and take care of the solid tumors that have formed up in the body. |
