Publisher's Synopsis
Paradigm of anticancer treatments is shifting rapidly. Cutting-edge anticancer treatment methods are appearing, such as cancer immunotherapy drugs, genome editing, a patient's own stem cell culture treatment and personalized treatment utilizing Big Data of supercomputers. U.S. CANCER REPORT speedily delivers the newest anticancer treatment methods related to cancer every month with a focus on the medical arena in the U.S., which is the nation with the most advanced anticancer treatments.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1. The Newest Cancer Treatments
1.1. Anticancer Immunotherapy
1.1.1. Immuno-Oncology Therapy: New Hope for Treating Cancer
1.1.2. Cancer Immunotherapy that Can Treat 30 Types of Cancer to Appear
1.1.3. Cancer Immunotherapy Drugs Accelerating Conquest of Cancer
1.1.4. Cancer Experts Demands Reduction in Cost of Cancer Drugs
1.1.5. Cancer Therapy Utilizing Immune Cells
1.2. Cancer Treatments Through Genome Editing
1.2.1. Treating Cancer and Incurable Diseases with Molecular Scissors
1.2.2. Successful Treatment of Leukemia Through Genome Editing
1.2.3. Gene Editing Paves Way for Pig Organ Transplant
1.2.4. Bill Gates-Google Investing in Gene Editing Startup
1.3. Cancer Treatments Using Supercomputer
1.3.1. Supercomputer Diagnosing Patients, Huge Shift in Medical Paradigm Beginning
1.3.2. Google-Apple-IBM Recruiting Streams of Medical Superstars
1.3.3. Google: Focusing on Biotech Projects like Conquering Cancer
1.3.4. Apple: To Utilize iPhone as Tool for Medical Research
1.3.5. Enlitic: To Diagnose and Treat Cancer with Deep Learning Technology
1.4. Other Cancer Treatments
1.4.1. Viral Anticancer Therapy to Destroy Cancer Cells
1.4.2. University of Tokyo in Japan: Reduces Tumor Size to 1/10 with iPS Cells
1.4.3. Cancer Progression-Treatment Effectiveness Trackable with Blood Test
1.4.4. Development of Blood Test to Detect Cancer: 96% Accuracy Rate
1.4.5. BioGemex: Develops Kit That Detects Cancer Early with a Single Drop of Blood within 20 Minutes
1.4.6. Rate at which Cancer Spreads May Increase if Cancer Patients Take Antioxidant Supplements
1.4.7. Aspirin: May Lower Cancer Occurrence and Prevent Cancer Metastasis, but Must be Careful of Side Effects
1.4.8. Large-Scale Clinical Trial into Aspirin's Cancer Suppression Effects to Begin
1.4.9. Cancer Survivors Have Worse Eating Habits than Regular People
1.4.10. Mediterranean Diet: Lowers Death Rate by 20% in Cancer Patients
1.4.11. The National Cancer Institute: Prolonged TV Viewing Increase Death Risk
1.4.12. New Type of Cancer Caused by Parasites Discovered
Chapter 2. Disease-specific Cancer Treatments
2.1. Lung Cancer
2.2. Liver Cancer
2.3. Colorectal Cancer
2.4. Prostate Cancer
2.5. Breast Cancer
2.6. Skin Cancer
2.7. Blood Cancer
2.8. Thyroid Cancer
2.9. Pancreatic Cancer
2.10. Kidney Cancer
2.11. Rare Cancer
