Nursing Current Conventional-¥ Therapy to Treat Cancer

Question:-

Using your new understanding of what cancer is, can you describe a current conventional therapy to treat cancer and discuss its success rate. Compare this to an alternative therapy. Be sure to talk about each therapy role in controlling cell cycle.

Answer:-

Chemotherapy is one conventional method for helping in curing cancer. Its ability to killing cancer cells keeps depending upon those abilities in halting cell division. The cancer drugs usually work through damage of DNA or RNA telling the cell in the ways in copying itself during divisions (Fan, Liu & Tian, 2019). If those cancer cells cannot divide, death will occur. The faster these cancer cells keep dividing, the more likeliness occurs chemotherapy would keep killing those cells causing tumour shrinking. They would even keep inducing suicide of cell (apoptosis or self-death). The chemotherapy scheduling has a set basis depending on the cell types, the division rate and the time where the provided drug has the likeliness involving effectiveness. This is the reason chemotherapy is provided within cycles typically.

The alternative method for cancer therapy is radiotherapy or radiation therapy which is much different from chemotherapy. With chemotherapy delivering the drugs to the body entirely, this radiation keeps aiming in targeting the body area specifically where cancerous cells are there. Also, this keeps aiming in reducing the healthy cell numbers getting effect in treatments.  This radiotherapy keeps killing cancerous cells which keep dividing. But this keeps affecting the cell division among tissues normally. This normalized cell damage keeps causing side effects normally (Thapliyal, Khar & Chandra, 2018). This therapy is this balance among minimizing the normal cell damage and destroying these cancer cells. Those cells in mitosis and late G2 (M-phase) becomes radiation-sensitive the most. Also, those cells within late synthesis (the S-phase) become resistant the most.