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Traditional cancer treatment methods

not ‘ideal,’ Turkish medics say

Traditional cancer between four-to-five years,” he experience of cancer. is prostate cancer in their families,” LABORATORY DEVICES
treatment methods added. he added.
According to Health Ministry
like chemotherapy As in Turkey, the most commonly statistics, a total of 17,630 women
and radiotherapy are According to Sezgin, these smart diagnosed cancers worldwide were diagnosed with breast cancer
medicines directly target cancer
not ideal anymore, a cells, killing and preventing growth, were those of the lung (1.8 million, in 2012 and one out of four female
13 percent of total diagnoses),
Turkish medical oncology potentially increasing the average breast (1.7 million, 11.9 percent) cancer patients suffer from the
specialist has said ahead lifetime of patients by about 30-40 and colorectal (1.4 million, disease in Turkey.
of World Cancer Day percent from initial diagnosis. 9.7 percent), according to the According to the American Cancer MUFFLE FURNACE
on Feb. 4, underscoring International Agency for Research Society’s website, new treatments
that new ways are being which could catch breast cancer
early are being studied and tested
developed to prevent the by scientists.
growth of cancer cells
by exploring the “cancer “Some drugs help to destroy PRODUCTION IN TURKEY...
maps” in human genes. tumors in 50-60 percent of patients
who have locally advanced breast
cancer,” Breast Health Society CLIMATIC TEST
Founder doctor Vahit Özmen said. CHAMBERS

Molecular breast imaging – also
known as scintimammography –
sees a radioactive tracer injected
into a vein.
DRY HEAT STERILIZERS/OVEN
AND INCUBATOR
This then attaches itself to breast
cancer cells and can be detected
with a special camera. However,
this method is still being studied
to see if it will be useful in locating
breast cancers.
“Older treatments like According to a 2012 Health on Cancer’s (IARC) online Under the description “targeted FUME HOOD
chemotherapy and radiotherapy Ministry report, every year about database, GLOBOCAN 2012. therapies,” one group of drugs also
are not ideal or ‘smart’ any more, 105,000 men and 71,000 women GLOBOCAN 2012 revealed that the takes advantage of gene changes
as these methods also kill healthy are diagnosed with various cancers most common causes of cancer in cells which can cause cancer.
cells,” Istanbul-based medical in Turkey. death were those of the lung (1.6
oncology and internal medicine Although cancer continues to claim million, 19.4 percent of the total), Some drugs currently in use target
Prof. Canfeza Sezgin told the many lives and devastate families liver (0.8 million, 9.1 percent) and HER2, a gene which can play a
state-run Anadolu Agency in an across the country, new treatment stomach (0.7 million, 8.8 percent). role in the development of breast MICROBIOLOGIAL
interview, adding “new ways are methods and medicines are Prostate cancer is also common in cancer. SAFETY CABINETS
being developed to prevent the being found to send cancers into Turkey. About the causes of the disease,
Ozmen said hormones seem to
growth of cancer cells by exploring remission, or at least extend the play a major role in breast cancer.
the human genetic cancer maps.” lifespans of cancer sufferers. “A prostate cancer patient can be A bad diet - especially eating red
treated with sound waves without meat, animal fat and drinking
Sezgin said “smart medicines” Men experience lung and prostate any pain and bleeding. They can alcohol - is also a risk factor in SHAKING WATER BATH
WITH CIRCULATION
have been used in the last four-to- cancer as the leading causes of then return to their normal life,” developing the illness, he added.
five years in Turkey and could be death from the disease. Among Turkish urology doctor Hüseyin
used alone or with chemotherapy. women, breast cancer is the most Lüleci said, adding that people Projections based on the
common fatal cancer, according could undergo a high-frequency GLOBOCAN 2012 estimates a
“We are doing genetic tests to the latest data from the Health sound waves procedure which substantive increase to 19.3 million
on patients to determine their Ministry. targets tumors directly. new cancer cases per year by ULTRASONIC
WATER BATH
cancer’s characteristics and 2025, due to an increased global
looking at whether it is suitable The struggle against this illness Lüleci said patients were often population which is living longer on O.S.B. Öz Ankara Sanayi
for smart medicines. If it is, their is, for many people, a battle to unaware of the disease because average. Sitesi 1464 (675).
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