Alternative Treatment for Cancer ?

A little understanding of cancer and the hope of healing that are too high tend to be the cause of cancer survivors, especially his family become the target marketing of alternative therapies. The rise of advertising on alternative treatments for cancer by various methods is often the cause of delay in cancer patients get the treatment that should be given immediately.

Cancer is a disease gene (intracellular information carrier) who has a disorder that causes the cells in a person's body to grow rapidly and uncontrolled. Process from the beginning of the fallacy of genes (genetic alternaration) until found medically it lasts a long time because the body has mechanisms to prevent occurrence of cancer in early stages of the process. Only in certain circumstances a person's body fails to stop him and formed cancer cells that evolved into a collection of dense tissue called tumors (solid tumors) in certain organs such as lung cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, prostate cancer, etc.. But it is necessary to understand the process of malignancy or cancer also occurs in the network is not dense (non-solid tumors) such as blood such as leukemia and thalassemia.

The process is not the same cancer causing handling and choice of anti-cancer drugs to be used is also not always the same. Just keep in mind the standard treatment for solid cancers (solid tumors) consists of surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapies and some also use immunotherapy. Choice of treatment depends on cell type, stage of disease and the general state of the patient at the time of diagnosis carried out. Treatment provided outside the standard referred to as alternative medicine.

Variations in the treatment of various alternatives that include herbs, acupuncture and even in some countries such as prayer spiritual approach to the alternative treatment options. This type of alternative treatment to watch is similar actions surgery (removing the cancer with massage techniques or move the tumor to another medium) that are difficult to understand by reason. Prudential also need to use materials that can be said to eliminate cancer cells in the form of drugs, such as: herbs, powders, capsules, pills or liquids because only a small fraction ever scientifically tested benefits and side effects can be caused. Almost all alternative drugs that proved just as a companion treatment and does not work as a cancer cell killer. If you carefully read the brochure will be written as a supplement and it works for all types of cancer. This means that alternative medicine is only useful when accompanied by a standard treatment options (different remedy each type of cancer). Choice of the most in Indonesia actually use materials that do not or have not been processed like red fruit, noni, mangosteen rind, leaves of soursop fruit, and others. Alternative treatment options without the use of standard treatment as the main option only cause delay and deterioration.

Current alternative treatment rapidly adopted in many parts of the world. More than 50% of the cost of treatment in the U.S. and Europe spent on alternative medicine. The difference is they usually combine standard and alternative treatment with the treating doctor's knowledge. Cooperation and the doctor-patient communication that will either give kindness to patients and prevention of unnecessary expenses, as the prices for alternative treatment is expensive. Doctors usually will not allow a form of alternative treatment drugs for companion, especially if patients are given chemotherapy to avoid serious side effects of chemotherapy and cause the process is not optimal.