Cancer Treatment Approaches — NEET Biology
📚 Practice ConceptTreatment of cancer: The common approaches for treatment of cancer are surgery, radiation therapy and immunotherapy. In radiotherapy, tumor cells are irradiated lethally, taking proper care of the normal tissues surrounding the tumor mass. Several chemotherapeutic drugs are used to kill cancerous cells. Some of these are specific for particular tumors. Majority of drugs have side effects like hair loss, anemia, etc. Most cancers are treated by combination of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Tumor cells have been shown to avoid detection and destruction by immune system. Therefore, the patients are given substances called biological response modifiers such as α-interferon which activates their immune system and helps in destroying the tumor.
Q9. Which statements about cancer treatment are correct? (i) Surgery removes the tumour (ii) Radiotherapy uses UV rays (iii) Chemotherapy uses anticancer drugs (iv) Immunotherapy is a cancer vaccine
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Correct answer: C — (i), (iii) and (iv)
(ii) is incorrect—radiotherapy uses ionising radiation (X-rays/gamma).
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