What happens to them after enduring months of exhaustive treatments?

More than 10.9 million people worldwide are diagnosed each year with a type of cancer, and more than 7.6 million die each year from the disease. It is estimated that there are 24.6 million people who have received a diagnosis of cancer in the past five years. Many of them are still fighting the disease and looking for a cure.

Traditional treatment for cancer includes chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery. These traditional treatments have been known to cure about one third of the cancers for which they are being used. However, what about the other two thirds of cancer patients? What happens to them after enduring months of exhaustive treatments? What happens when chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery aren’t enough to beat their cancers? Were the side effects of the treatments – hair loss, chronic fatigue, nausea and vomiting – are all for nothing?

Gene therapy as a treatment for cancer is an innovative treatment which uses genetic medications to treat the disease. The drug named Gendicine, is the world’s first approved gene therapy drug to treat cancer, approved in 2003 by the State FDA (Food and Drug Administration) of China. To date, more than 1,000 patients worldwide have come to Beijing and have been successfully treated with the drug Gendicine, to cure more than 43 types of solid tumours. These include head and neck cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, liver cancer, prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer and others.

This groundbreaking treatment was developed and is currently only available in China. Some medical experts are calling this a wake-up call for the West to develop their own new integrative cancer therapies using gene therapy and biological therapy.

Gene therapy is an integrative process involving multiple methods of treatment. That is why gene therapy is used along traditional treatments of chemotherapy, surgery and radiotherapy. This has shown to significantly reduce the size of the tumours and to also improve the overall quality of life of the patients.

Gene therapy is also combined with alternative cancer treatments such as traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine includes acupuncture, massage, herbal medicine and more. Recent studies have shown that one in three Americans have used some sort of alternative therapies while undergoing treatment or recovering from disease.

This alternative cancer treatment, Gene therapy, had proven to shrink back the harsh side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. In addition, acupuncture and herbal medicine can significantly reduce side effects like nausea, prevent vomiting and help fight the fatigue that can be so debilitating during treatment.

As doctors all over the world agree with the fact that traditional methods alone are falling short and still allow millions of deaths each year, Gene therapy and alternative cancer treatments are being thrust into the spotlight as the next big step forward in treating cancer.