Answer:
- Cancer can be detected at early stages and early detection is essential. Following are a few can diagnosis and detection areas:
- Tests for increases cell counts (blood cancer)
- Histo-pathological and biopsy of blood/tissues/bone marrow
- Radiography, CT, MRI to detect cancer of internal organs
- Identification of cancer-specific antigens
- Application of molecular biology techniques to detect genes with inherited susceptibility to a few cancers
- Treatment of cancer: Listed below are a few approaches that can be used to treat cancer.
- Surgery to remove the tumour
- Immunotherapy to boost the killing of cancer cells
- Radiotherapy to kill cancerous cells
- Chemotherapy
- Administration of biological response mediators such as ∝-interferons that activate the immune system thus helping in destroying the tumour