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Terminal illness or end-stage disease is a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and is expected to result in the death of the patient. This term is more commonly used for progressive diseases such as cancer, dementia, advanced heart disease, and for HIV/AIDS, or long COVID in bad cases, rather than for injury.
Cancer treatments are a wide range of treatments available for the many different types of cancer, with each cancer type needing its own specific treatment. [1] Treatments can include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy including small-molecule drugs or monoclonal antibodies, [2] and PARP inhibitors such as olaparib. [3]
Some psychotherapists claimed that treatment to change the patient's outlook on life would cure the cancer. [240] Among other effects, this belief allowed society to blame the victim for having caused the cancer (by "wanting" it) or having prevented its cure (by not becoming a sufficiently happy, fearless and loving person). [241]
Whether inflammation is present in the body before or after a cancer diagnosis, it affects all life stages of cancer—part of what Ravella calls the “tumor microenvironment” — “from the ...
According to the Mayo Clinic, alternative cancer treatments can't cure the disease but may provide some relief from signs and symptoms. The hospital, which specializes in cancer, cardiology and ...
Anti-cancer psychotherapy – a technique [131] claiming that a "cancer personality" caused cancer, which could be cured through talk therapy (e.g. that of the Simonton Cancer Center, [132] Bernie Siegel's "Exceptional Cancer Patients" (ECaP) or Deepak Chopra). Evidence is lacking that cancer cures sold or promoted by Deepak Chopra have any value.
I didn’t want to hear: “You’re so strong; I can’t imagine!” “I’ve heard this kale recipe fights cancer,” or “my third cousin went to Thailand for treatment and now she’s cured.”
Spontaneous remission, also called spontaneous healing or spontaneous regression, is an unexpected improvement or cure from a disease that usually progresses. These terms are commonly used for unexpected transient or final improvements in cancer .