Survey on Therapeutic Advances in Oncology
Introduction Cancer is a disease in which some body cells grow abnormally and spread to other body regions. Cancer can be benign ( does not spread/non-cancerous) or malignant ( spread/ cancerous). It is a hereditary disease which means that cancer is caused by specific alterations to genes. Proto-oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes and DNA repair genes are the primary gene groups that are typically affected by the genetic alterations that cause cancer. The study of diagnosis and treatments of cancer is known as ‘Oncology.’ It comprehends medical oncology (chemotherapy, hormone therapy, drugs to treat cancer), radiation oncology (radiation therapy to treat cancer) and surgical oncology (surgery and other procedures to treat cancer). There are more than one hundred types of cancer. Scientists have discovered that specific mutations occur in a variety of cancer forms as they learn more about the molecular changes that cause cancer. Now there are a wide range of cancer treatments avai...