During only this year, a lot of people died from cancer. Because of that, I became a bit paranoid of whether I would suffer from the same kind of disease when the time comes. Call me paranoid but hey, it's just a thought! We don't really know what's bound to happen. In fact, there are some people I know who have a healthy lifestyle, no family history of cancer, but they died due to the said disease.
But somehow, there might be already a cure for cancer.
I watched The Correspondents last night and they featured Cryosurgery as a means of curing cancer. Karen Davila went to Fuda Cancer Hospital in Guangzhou, China which is actually becoming popular because of the method they're using in treating cancer. Based on the documentary, there are more or less 5,000 people all over the world who are now cancer-free because of them.
Chemotherapy and radiation are the most popular method we know in terms of treating cancer. Since both are not used localized, they have wide-variety of side effects. Chemotherapy can be administered through a vein, injected into a body cavity, or can be used orally. It destroys cancer cells as well as our fast-growing cells, such as hair and blood cells. With radiation, a large machine called simulator delivers the exact amount of radiation to kill the cancer cells in a certain area. The skin around it may be reddened or irritated after the treatment. Also, radiation therapy can kill the germ-fighting cells in the blood, thereby decreasing the person's body to fight off infections, and making it necessary for the patient to have blood transfusion.
In Cryosurgery, they use a localized probe in contact with the tumor, causing the cells to freeze. The tumor is frozen, thawed, and refrozen until the malignant cells are completely destroyed. This process is monitored with ultrasound in order to preserve as much nearby healthy tissue as possible.
(using cryosurgery in treating liver cancer)
People they interviewed includes some Filipinos who are actually admitted in that hospital for series of cryosurgery treatment. One even claimed that only for 5 weeks, she was already cancer-free. The brother of Sen. Guingona also gave a testimony that after a series of chemotherapy in Manila which didn't work for him, Fuda Cancer Hospital gave him a second life.
Isn't that amazing?! Finally, a cure for cancer!
Only, you have to travel all the way to China and spend more or less Php 1,000,000! But I think it's worth it considering you also have to spend that much for chemotherapy, plus the side effects it could give you and the non-assurance that you would be cancer-free after the treatment.
I just hope after a few years, cancer patients don't have to travel to China anymore because we already have cryosurgery here in the Philippines.
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3 comments:
umaandar pagiging nars mo bakla ah! hehehe. i just really hope someday na mgkaron nyan sa pinas because there would be a lot of people na mbibigyan ng 2nd life.. thanks for sharing the info.. :)
and bout the commercial, I SO AGREE! lalo dito sa ofc nmin madalas ang brwnout! kapag nsa tabulas ka mawawaley lahat ng nisulat mo.. it happened to me a hell out of times haha
wah, na-bother ako dun sa pikchur! T_T
napanuod ko rin yung first part ng docu na yun, pero dahil medyo graphic, di ko kinaya. hahaha
sobrang nainspire kasi ako dun sa documentary na un kaya napagawa ako ng entry. nakakaparanoid kaya magka-cancer!
at saka plano kong tumulong sa mga batang may cancer na hindi afford ang treatments pag dating ng panahon. promise un :) kaya gusto ko mga topics related to cancer.
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