Cancer treatment is sometimes problematic. Sometimes, given the current inability of science to cure more aggressive cancers in advanced stages of evolution, it is preferable to give up curative treatment and palliative treatment applied to provide the least possible discomfort and lead to a dignified death. In such cases the emotional support becomes paramount.
Cancer treatment currently provided (in the early twenty-first century) science is based on three pillars: surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. There is a fourth pillar called biological therapy include hormone therapy, immunotherapy, and new non-cytotoxic therapeutic targets. (more…)
