Therapeutic Options

Question 1

What are the therapeutic options for prevention?

Answer 1

Diet (avoid obesity, exercise), screening (smear tests, faecal sample, mammography), genetics (screening), chemoprevention (medications that reduce risk of cancer)

Question 2

What are the broad categories of treatment available?

Answer 2

Local/regional and systemic

Question 3

What are examples of local/regional treatment?

Answer 3

Surgery, radiotherapy, ablation, isolated limb perfusion

Question 4

What are examples of systemic treatment?

Answer 4

Hormonal therapy, chemotherapy, immunotherapy and whole body irradiation

Question 5

What does staging reveal?

Answer 5

Where the cancer is and what kind it is

Question 6

What percentage of cancers are cured by surgery?

Answer 6

50%

Question 7

What are the benefits of radiotherapy?

Answer 7

Can treat inoperable lesions, make surgery possible and maintain function/appearance

Question 8

What are the 5 R’s of radiobiology?

Answer 8

Radiosensitivity
Repair
Re-population
Re-oxygenation
Re-assortment

Question 9

What percentage of cancers cured by radiotherapy?

Answer 9

About 40%

Question 10

What are examples of immune therapies?

Answer 10

Specific: monoclonal antibodies and PD-1 pathway and non-specific: innate immune system