Medical Oncology

Medical Oncology is a discipline that deals with cancer systemic therapy including chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy, care and support for bone marrow transplantation.

Medical Oncology communicate the results of clinical and experimental research in oncology and hematology, especially with experimental therapies in the field of immunotherapy and chemotherapy.

In the current medical oncology in a nascent stage in the country. One limitation is expressed by many centers is the non availability of trained medical oncologists. Some centers such as GCRI (Ahmedabad, Adyar (Chennai), IRCH (AIIMS, New Delhi), RCC (Trivandrum) and) Tata memorial hospital (Mumbai), Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology (Bangalore), has been able to develop a full fledged medical oncology department .

Some of the goals should be directly in Medical Oncology.

Only a trained medical oncologist should be allowed to manage cancer chemotherapy.
Provide treatment for all cancers can be cured by providing free medicines and reduce costs.
Provide appropriate chemotherapy administration by trained medical oncologists only.
Training facilities need to be expanded as well as care facilities under the subheading of medical oncology.

Strategies to Achieve Objective:

* Creation of the Department of Medical Oncology.
* Improve the training of medical oncology.
* Create awareness of Medicine MD / Pediatric Residents.
* Free Drugs for incurable cancer and other children.
* Reduce costs and generate funds for chemotherapy.

therapy:

It depends entirely on the nature of the tumor was identified and the type of therapeutic intervention will be necessary. Often, seek surgery to remove the tumor entirely.
Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are used as first-line therapy in several malignancies radical ..
They are generally used for palliation, where disease is clearly incurable: in this situation the goal is to improve the quality of life and prolong it.