Cancer is now treatable due to medical advances and improvements, in accordance with Dr. Marvin Mendoza, head of the medical oncology part of the National Kidney and Transplant Institute.
Even at stage 4 or when a most cancers has metastasized to different organs—be it the breast, liver, or cervical—there may be hope for remedy, however much more so whether it is recognized early. The medicines for a lot of totally different sorts of most cancers are already accessible domestically, the oncologist stated.
Going past chemotherapy, the federal government gives focused therapies for 2 forms of most cancers: breast most cancers and lymphoma.
For breast most cancers sufferers who can not afford the P300,000 to P450,000 wanted to undergo the required 18 remedy cycles, they’ll go to not less than 23 public hospitals all through the nation free of charge remedy.
“Options for treatment include a subcutaneous injection that takes about five minutes to administer or a three-hour intravenous administration that also requires an additional two hours or so for preparation,” Mendoza stated.
Only about 200 or so sufferers will be accommodated nationwide as a result of the Department of Health was given lower than P1 billion for this program.
“If we have to save more lives, we need more funds from the government, not just for treatment but for testing, because early diagnosis and treatment are far more effective than treating late-stage disease,” he added. — VBL, GMA Integrated News
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