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How can we prevent cancer from evolving in the future?

 

Since the mid-1970s, health care professionals have expanded on the age-old definition of cancer care to include aspects of cancer control: prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship. Using the term cancer control continuum to describe this model of healthcare delivery is not only more accurate and pragmatic than using the term continuum of cancer care , but also it expands the traditional focus of cancer care beyond diagnosis and treatment.

                                              


Clinical Dimensions of Cancer Prevention

Corporate practices have a dominant influence on health-related behaviors by influencing the social, physical, and policy factors that shape individual decisions. As with other health outcomes, many cancers disproportionately affect people of color and people of low socioeconomic status (SES). Because the number of cancer cases in the United States is growing, primary prevention of cancer is a high priority. However, many people still smoke cigarettes and eat poorly. Scientists are investigating the causes of cancer, and they have identified some ways to prevent cancer. We need a more transdisciplinary and multifaceted approach to cancer prevention, which would be best suited to different age groups and population segments.

The medical advancement and measures which are responsible for cancer prevention are

1)       Cancer immunotherapy combines cancer treatment and prevention. Immunotherapies activate, recruit and/or enhance an individuals own immune system to specifically target and destroy cancer cells. Clinical evidence has shown that cancer immunotherapy can block the progression from normal cells to cancer cells, eliminate existing cancers and help the body fight off future cancers using the patients own immune system. Recent breakthroughs are offering new hope for the treatment of many types of cancers.

2)       The incidence of cancer is rising at an alarming rate. The good news is that lifestyle and medical interventions have been proven to be effective in preventing certain cancers.

3)       In situ cancers are very dangerous. They can be fatal if not discovered early enough and have a high potential of becoming invasive. New advances in medical treatment to work on both the early detection and pre-cancerous phase of in situ cancer in a way when it is less harmful. These treatments are especially important since these types of cancer are the least detectable by mammograms and other common forms of cancer screening.

4)       Immunotherapy, the use of the immune system to fight cancer and other diseases, is going through a golden age. Since 1980, we’ve seen the development of vaccines against hepatitis B and human papilloma virus (HPV)-related cancers, as well as efforts to create immune response modulation strategies for numerous cancers, including those that are difficult to treat. And new vaccines are on the horizon. The hope is that adding vaccines to our arsenal of treatments for cancer, surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy,  will extend how long patients live with their disease and improve their quality of life.

5)       The future of cancer prevention is on the horizon. Multidisciplinary research efforts include collaborations between diagnostic imaging technology experts and information technologists to improve current diagnosis technique and they are developing new strategies to diagnose cancer early. This collaboration has led to a new period of advances in communicative medicine.

                                               


The underlying premise is one in which precision medicine leverages technology and expertise in communication to provide clinicians and their patients with better outcomes than those realized using the traditional paradigm.

 

 

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