Cancer has been the biggest medical challenge in the 21st century. Scientists, doctors, and health institutions have been working day and night to defeat cancer. Impressive strides have been made but it has not been enough.
Here are technologies that will help the world defeat cancer.
1. Tailor-made vaccines
Note that cancer is a result of genetic mutations; healthy cells become tumor cells. Mutations are spontaneous, and as a result, the tumor cells resulting from the activities turn out different. What does this mean? Maybe there should be personalized vaccines to target different types of tumors. Predicting antigens in patients’ malignant cells could yield successful treatments for individuals with a range of cancer types.
This approach to cancer treatment will make it even cheaper. The development of a personalized vaccine is already underway, and it has great potential.
2. Precise cancer treatment technologies
It is true that several technologies are being used in cancer treatment. They are doing a great job, and many lives have been saved. However, things would be much better if precision was employed. Technologies such as CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) which is used in China for genetic editing work with fantastic precision. The technology can be used to make CAR-T therapy more effective because it allows for the quick launch of CAR-T cell therapies.
3. Using immune T-cell to attack cancer antigens
This is the development of cell therapy. The technology is called CAR-T cell therapy, and it entails extracting the immune T-cells from a patient. The cells are then genetically engineered and reintroduced into the patient’s body to attack specific cancer antigens.
After the exhaustion of other treatment options, CAR-T cell therapy has b rough back hope to the patients who’ve lost it. The treatment is still under development. With that, you can pretty much expect a few challenges. The biggest challenge seen with this treatment is the death of patients resulting from the side effects.
Due to its potency, it has only been used to treat rare strains of blood cancer. Scientists are working to make effective CAR-T cell therapy useful in treating all ranges of cancers.
4. Using microbes to boost immune systems
The human body has microbes. Scientists have discovered that teaming up with microbes could be the solution to cancer. The microbes are responsible for suppressing inflammation and also boosting immunity.
Thanks to technology, the cancer menace will eventually be mitigated. Health scientists are dedicated to finding a cure for cancer. Progress has been made in the invention of technologies that make cancer treatment useful. Personalized vaccines take a more hands-on approach. Different tumor cells call for a different approach.
Precision in cancer treatment will also yield better results. Research is ongoing, and more medical discoveries will manifest: cancer will be mitigated.
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