• Question: Is there any other way of killing cancer other than chemotherapy and transplants? If so what is it?

    Asked by 15wardg to Alexis on 18 Jun 2013.
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      Alexis Barr answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      Yes! I think by transplants you might mean surgery – which is still the best way to remove most cancers. The problem is that surgery is only really successful on cancers that haven’t started to spread. Another way of killing cancer is by radiotherapy. This is where high energy radiation (like X-rays) is used to kill cancer cells. Often many patients will have a combination of chemotherapy (drugs) and radiotherapy to kill their cancer cells.

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    Dr D commented on :

    You can also try to vaccinate. We need to try to wake up our immune system so that it starts to see the cancer cells. It isn’t easy but there’s research going on to try and do this. I think this might be really important in the future