The treatment for people with many cancers has been transformed in the last two decades, and further major improvements are expected to occur over the next twenty years. [ Ссылка ]
Improved surgery and radiotherapy have been joined by less toxic chemotherapy targeting specific genetic abnormalities in cancer cells. Better genetic understanding of cancer and harnessing the immune system to fight disease are among the approaches revolutionising a group of diseases once seen as incurable.
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The Treatment of Cancer - Professor Chris Whitty
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