19.4+Treatment+of+Caner+-+Rachel

=19.4 Treatment of Cancer=

1. What three types of therapy are presently the standard ways to treat cancer?
 * 1) Surgery
 * 2) Radiation
 * 3) Cehmotherapy

2. a. What is an active form of immunotherapy and b) a passive form of immunotherapy for cancer? A. Active immunotherapy: 1. Melacine vaccine or 2. genetically engineered immune cells similar to tumor's antigens. B. Passive immunotherapy: monoclonal antibodies

3. What type of p53 therapy is available? A genetically engineered vircus is now available that infect and kill only p53 (tumor cells).

4. What is the rationale for antiangiogenesis therapy? The drugs break up the network of new capillaries in the vicinity of a tumor thus confining and reducing tumors.

HOW DID YOU DO THAT (BELOW) (DESCRIBE NEW TREATMENT TOO)