1. Cancer Treatment

2. Cancer Treatment 1. Surgery 2. Chemotherapy 3. Radiation
4. Targeted Therapy
5. Immunotherapy
6. Hormone Therapy
7. Stem Cell Therapy
8. Precision Medicine

3. 1. Surgery: remove or destroy tumors
Laser Surgery: precise and can use fiber optics
Cryosurgery: freeze the tumors
Skin cancer removal – jump to 1:00
Electrosurgery
Radiofrequency Ablation: using highly focused microwaves to burn out a tumor
Laparoscopic Surgery: Making tiny external incisions and using tiny probes, instruments, and cameras to work inside the body
Laparoscopy Animation
Liver Cancer Laparoscopy
Robotic
Origami
Sutures

4. 2. Chemotherapy: - uses toxic compounds to target fast growing cells
- can’t differentiate between cancer and healthy fast growing cells such as hair, skin, blood, and the lining of the digestive system = common side effects of chemo
- hair loss
- dry itchy skin
- digestive issues
- pain
- lethargy and exhaustion

5. 3. Radiation A. External B. Internal - Brachytherapy Tumor Bombardment
Therapy – jump to 1:30
Gamma Knife
B. Internal - Brachytherapy
Radioactive materials such as wires or small “Seeds” are implanted in the tumor
Seeds give off localized radiation to destroy the tumor

7. 4. Targeted Therapy
Targeting Cancer Metabolism
- Cancer Cell Metabolism differs from normal cell metabolism – targeting these differences with specific drugs can interfere with the growth of the cancer and kill it
- Targeted therapy treats the patient with specific medicines that “target” a specific molecule within the cancer cell to block the growth, progression, and spread of the cancer

8. Targeted Therapy vs. Chemotherapy
Chemo affects all actively growing cells while targeted affects molecules only associated with cancer cells
Chemo is napalm and target therapy is a sniper
Challenges:
- finding the target proteins that differ in cancer cells
Monoclonal Antibody Carriers –

9. 5. Immunotherapy
- specific type of targeted therapy using antibodies to bind to the surface of cancer cells so the human immune system can identify and destroy the cells
May involve boosting the production of the immune cells
The identity game

10. Types: Monoclonal Antibodies: cancer cell’s identifying proteins are injected into mice so their immune systems will develop antibodies against them
These antibodies are harvested from the mice, and “humanized” to make them more usable by the human body – Making Monoclonal Antibodies
These are mass produced and then injected into the patient
Ted Talk – jump to 6:00

11. Adoptive Cell Transfer:
T-cells are removed from the patient and grown in mass quantities and then injected back into the patient
T-cells are the immune cells that identify and destroy foreign cells
Cytokines: = Cell movement – chemicals released by the body to cause immune cells to activate – injected into the patient to rev up the immune cells

12. 6. Hormone Therapy: uses hormones to disrupt the signals of cancers that rely on hormones to grow. These therapies either block the production of the hormones that stimulate the cancer or they interfere with how the hormones operate.
Ex. Breast and prostate cancers

13. 7. Stem Cell Therapy:
Many cancers such as leukemia or lymphoma require the destruction of the bone marrow. Stem cell therapy restores the stem cells of the bone marrow so the patient can recover.

14. 8. Precision Medicine: Specifically tailoring treatments to the specific genetics of the cancer of the patient. The cancer is genetically screened to determine the precise mechanism of growth in order to individualize treatment.