Cancer treatment: current trends

Abstract

Among various other diseases, cancer has become a big threat to human beings globally.  According to the As per Indian population census data, the rate of mortality due to cancer in India was high and alarming with about 806000 existing cases by the end of the last century. Cancer is the second most common disease in India responsible for maximum mortality with more than 1300 Indians die due to cancer. This is owing to the poor availability of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the disease. The causes of such high incidence rates of these cancers may be both internal (genetic, mutations, hormonal, poor immune conditions) and external or environmental factors (food habits, industrialization, over growth of population, social etc).