World Cancer Day 2017: There's a Revolution in Treatment!
On World Cancer Day (February 4), the world's leading experts in this field believe that advances in genetics will help treat cancer like a chronic disease in the very near future.
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| The famous photo of the brave will to fight breast cancer and win of pregnant woman Kimi Maxwell (Australia) in 2013. She is still living healthy. |
Survival rates have increased significantly over the past five decades, with average survival increasing from 24% in the early 1970s to around 50%.
But some forms of the disease remain difficult to treat - only 1% of pancreatic cancer patients and 5% of lung cancer patients survive 10 years after diagnosis.
Professor Karol Sikora, former head of the World Health Organization's cancer program, said advances in genetics would soon enable personalized medicine that would work best for a single patient. Because breast cancers in 100 women are all different, and molecular understanding has shown that cancer cells are different from normal cells.
“These specialized drugs will stop the cancer and turn it into a chronic disease,” said Professor Sikora.
“Most patients get cancer when they are 50 or 60 years old. If they live another 20 or 30 years, they will clearly have reached the life expectancy of a normal person,” said Professor Sikora.
Professor Sikora also believes that a medical revolution in cancer treatment will take place within the next 5-10 years as research on treatment is being accelerated.
10-year survival rate after cancer diagnosis: In the 1970s, the survival rate for testicular cancer was as high as 98% with a maximum survival time of 10 years. According to data from the British Cancer Research Institute in 2010-2011, the survival rate for skin cancer was 89% and 84% for prostate cancer. 78% of breast cancer patients can live at least 10 years, along with 80% of Hodgkin lymphoma patients and 77% of cervical cancer. The lowest 10-year survival rates were for pancreatic cancer (1%), lung cancer (5%), and esophageal cancer (12%). Despite advances in cancer treatment, some cancers remain stubborn. For example, the 10-year survival rate for brain cancer has increased from 6% to 14% since the 1970s. Similarly, the survival rate for esophageal cancer has increased from 4% to 12%. While the survival rate for lung cancer patients has increased from only 3 to 5%, there has been no improvement for pancreatic cancer, despite recent significant breakthroughs. However, there are some types of cancer that can be cured such as leukemia and testicular cancer. |
According to Dan Tri
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