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19.4 Questions

 * 1) What three types of therapy are presently standard ways to treat cancer? **The three most common treatments are surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.**
 * 2) What is an active form of immunotherapy and a passive form of immunotherapy for cancer? **An active form of immunotherapy is to put a genetically formed immune cells in the cell to fight the tumor. An example of a passive immunotherapy is to put monoclonal antibodies into the body, and they then cause proteins to focus on the cancer cell.**
 * 3) What type of p53 therapy is available? **An adenovirus can be injected, and adenoviruses only target cells without a p53 gene, which are cancer cells. This procedure allows the destruction of cancer cells and none others.**
 * 4) What is the rationale for antiangiogenisesis? **They prevent new capillaries from being formed around the tumor, causing the tumor to stay where it is, and eventually die.**


 * New Treatments**

"CHEMO COMBO" A study showed that when pemetrexed and cisplatin was taken along with vitamins, people lived up to three months longer and had a better quality of life. While at the beginning of the treatments, people had nausea and diarrhea. PROVIDE LINK TOO