Recent updates in Cancer Studies

Drugs were not considered to be a "cure" for cancer until the 1960s; the cornerstones of cancer treatment were surgery and radiation. In the late 1930s, pharmacological therapies for prostate cancer in males produced, at best, a short-lived, incomplete remission. Hormone therapy was an exception. After the National Cancer Act of 1937 established the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and provided funding for cancer research, medical professionals and researchers started to focus more on employing chemical agents and pharmaceuticals to treat cancer. When chemotherapies were used to successfully treat children with leukaemia and adults with Hodgkin's lymphoma in the 1960s and early 1970s, these treatments represented the first major advances. More than 600 medications are currently approved in the US to treat cancer. The majority of them fight cancer in various ways and can be divided into three primary categories: chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and targeted therapy. Chemotherap...

The AI revolution has major consequences for all of medicine, but especially for the precise treatment of cancer . Mammography, CT scans, and microscopy, which are used to study tissue biopsies and surgical resection specimens, are among the radiographic imaging technologies that have been touched by the initial wave of medical AI tools. Statistical and machine-learning methods, such as neural networks and the layers of neural networks referred to as "deep learning," have enabled increasingly accurate pattern identification and classification. These kinds of image analysis can help with cancer detection , diagnosis, and cancer aggressiveness when used with medical imaging and diagnostic pathology. AI-aided interpretations are becoming more and more important as a result of improvements in the collecting of radiographic images and the scanning of pathology slides, which result in substantially bigger volumes of data acquired. In older times, pathologists used microscopes to ...