Question

Differentiate among the three types of cancer treatment (curative, control, and palliative), considering the risks and benefits of each approach.

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Curative cancer treatment:

Curative care refers to health care practices that treat patients with the intent of curing them, not just reducing their pain or stress. An example is chemotherapy, which seeks to cure cancer patients. The issue of curative care comes up when a patient has a terminal illness and is considering hospice care.

Curative chemotherapy aims to “cure the cancer,” meaning it is intended to eliminate all cancerous cells, resulting in what doctors call “complete remission.” The majority of patients receiving chemotherapy with the goal of cure are receiving chemotherapy as well as surgery or radiation

Cancer chemotherapy provides variably effective treatment for the majority of forms of human cancer and curative treatment for some 12 categories of cancer. Curative treatment is defined as the proportion of patients who survive beyond the time after which the risk of treatment failure approaches zero, i.e., the disease-free survival plateau. This progress has resulted from a closely integrated scientific effort, including drug development, pharmacology, preclinical modeling, experimental design with respect to clinical trials, quantitative criteria for response, and a series of clinical trials (initially in children with acute lymphocytic leukemia) in which the importance of complete remission, of dose and schedule, of sequencing chemotherapeutic agents, of pharmacological sanctuaries, and particularly of combination chemotherapy

Curative treatment aims to remove as much of the cancer as possible and extend the patient's life expectancy.

Cancer control treatment:

Cancer control is a term often used by the media, medical centers, and organizations like the American Cancer Society. But it's sometimes hard to describe what it is. That's why we're explaining what cancer control is, what its goals are, what cancer control programs do, and what the results of successful cancer control look like.

What It Is: Cancer control focuses on reducing the number of people who get cancer, have complications from it, and die from it. It uses approaches that have been tested through research to control the number of cancer cases as well as the effects of cancer. Cancer control programs work to find and use the most effective ways to:

Prevent cancer

Reduce the risk of cancer

Find cancer earlier

Improve cancer treatments

Help more people survive cancer

Improve the quality of life for people who have cancer

Its Goal: The goal of cancer control is to reduce the cancer burden. That means preventing cancer and decreasing how cancer impacts a community, family, and individual.

Risks:

Their risk factors for cancer, some of which can be changed with healthy habits

How often they get the cancer screenings recommended for people with their risk factors

If they actually develop cancer

Their access to a high-quality cancer treatment center

Cancer control programs bring together a group of people or organizations who work to put cancer research into action. This group may include cancer centers, hospitals, universities and schools, public health agencies, the government, and organizations like the American Cancer Society. They look at what methods have been shown to be most effective for cancer prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship. An increasing number of cancer control programs are also looking at approaches to palliative care. Palliative care doesn’t treat cancer but can ease the cancer burden by managing cancer symptoms and side effects of treatment to help improve a person’s quality of life.  

      A cancer control program is successful when it assures that people are as healthy as possible, regardless of race, age, gender, location, social level, or economic status. This means that everyone in the cancer control program’s group or community is motivated to live healthy lifestyles, has the best possible chance to prevent cancer, and has access to high-quality care to treat cancer and manage its effects.

Palliative cancer treatment:

Palliative treatment is designed to relieve symptoms, and improve your quality of life. It can be used at any stage of an illness if there are troubling symptoms, such as pain or sickness.

It can also be used to reduce or control the side effects of cancer treatments. In advanced cancer, palliative treatment might help someone to live longer and to live comfortably, even if they cannot be cured.

The treatment is not limited to painkillers and anti sickness drugs. Cancer treatments can also reduce or get rid of symptoms. For example, they can help to reduce pain by shrinking a tumour and reducing pressure on nerves or surrounding tissues. Treatments used in this way include:

chemotherapy

radiotherapy

hormone therapy

targeted cancer drugs

radiofrequency ablation

cryotherapy

Palliative care is an important part of care that is included along with treatments to slow, stop, or cure the cancer. Research shows that palliative care can improve the quality of your life and help you feel more satisfied with the treatment you receive.

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