Cancer: Key Facts About Therapy And Treatment

So, overall, a person’s nutritional habits and the exercise they do can have a substantial impact on not only the likelihood of contracting some cancers but also in reducing complications and improving outcome during treatment for cancer. It also seems beneficial in improving the time needed to recover and the quality of recovery after treatment.

However, omega-3 fat supplementation may prove very beneficial during treatment. In closing, while some useful information is now beginning to emerge with regards to exercise, nutrition and cancer, with cancer being one of the most diverse diseases in existence and the second highest killer in the USA, there is a clear need for more research in this area.

Therapy and Treatment: Conventional, Preventative, Adjuvant, and Alternative

When discussing therapy in potentially life-threatening illnesses, it is vital to distinguish between conventional, adjuvant, preventative and alternative therapy. It is also important to distinguish between treatment, which is usually associated with the intention cure or permanently improve an individual’s medical situation or outcome, and therapy, which is generally associated with rehabilitation and increasing overall, general wellbeing.

Conventional therapy and treatment is a term normally used to define the traditional methods of treating an illness or disease. It’s basically the standard medical practice in most Western and developed nations and includes a variety of treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation treatment, stem cell transplantation and surgery. Put simply, these are the methods of therapy you will experience if you go to a hospital or a doctor. These have also been shown in research to be the most effective methods of treatment that exist today.

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Alternative therapy, usually associated with homeopathy or natural remedies, is a broad definition which describes pretty much any significant deviation from conventional treatments to an illness. This is usually done instead of conventional therapy, or in tandem with the conventional therapy, known as complementary alternative medicine. In terms of cancer treatment, alternative therapy use has been both quite prevalent in cancer patients, and on the rise in recent years, despite the lack of evidence that any of these therapies are effective. In truth, an entire article could be written on this subject alone, so for now the definitions and differences in the evidence supporting their effectiveness, which will be discussed shortly, will have to suffice.

Preventative medicine or therapy, as the name implies, is carried out to try prevent either the primary illness or disease from occurring or, commonly in cancer, to help prevent secondary complications from occurring once the initial illness or disease is contracted.

Adjuvant therapy are protocols or practices that are done either alongside conventional cancer treatments or done immediately after the main treatment protocol in order to improve the outcome of the treatment or to prevent the chance of the illness, cancer in this case, from recurring.