Introduction to Skin Cancer

Skin Cancer Treatments - The Gerson Therapy
When a person is diagnosed with skin cancer they will face very few possible treatment plans from their health care provider. The initial treatment will consist of the surgical removal of the tumor. The next step will depend on whether the tumor is a melanoma or not. Then the alternatives will be between radiation therapy and chemotherapy. But what of the many other alternatives out there that are not offered to skin cancer patients. Are there some that should be considered?

The Gerson Therapy is one very well known treatment plan.

The Gerson therapy plan goes by the philosophy that the immune system needs to be boosted to help the patient’s body fight off the skin cancer, or any other cancer. This therapy can be done at home by the patient on his or her own with materials gleaned from the Internet on the right way to practices this therapy. But it is suggested that instead the patient finds a clinic licensed in this treatment specialty and at least begin their treatment plan there. The treatment plan is always slightly modified to suit the individual patient’s requirements.

Dr. Gerson first wrote up his ideas on boosting the body’s immune system by using natural means in 1945. His theories seem to stand the test of time. His observations are that these cancers seem to be worse in cultures where mankind eats too many prepackaged foods with additives. He believed that man needed to use the natural things we grow to purify and boost the patient’s ability to fight off the cancer. What Gerson promoted was the consumption of organically grown fruits and vegetables daily.

On his plan the patient is to drink one glass of fresh organically grown juice every hour for a total of thirteen hours daily. The patient must eat three vegetarian meals daily as well and they should consist of a salad, a vegetable soup, cooked vegetables, baked potatoes and juice to drink. Snacks and desserts are encouraged as long as they are also fruits or vegetables.

Gerson’s beliefs were that the uses of natural medications to boost the immune system and to clean the body were the only way to properly fight cancer. All patients must use potassium compound, Vitamin B12, thyroid hormone, pancreatic enzymes, crude liver extract and they must have coffee or chamomile enemas. The enemas are to stimulate bile flow and improve liver function. They are to enable the body to get rid of the toxicity in the body. Interestingly patients of the Gerson philosophy often report a lessening of pain, improved healing and a feeling of wellbeing from the enemas.

A couple of warnings about this treatment plan. It is not to be used when a patient is using chemotherapy. Also even those who swear by the curative powers of the Gerson Therapy will tell you that this does not work for everyone. Never stop the treatment you are having in mid-therapy to begin something else without consulting with your health care provider.

Treating Skin Cancer with Photodynamic Therapy
When it comes to cancer treatments one thing you can say is that there are always new things being tried. Researchers are finding and developing new methods to try to combat this very serious disease.

With skin cancer it’s no different. There are many treatments to choose from and not all of them are the standard surgical removal followed by radiation or chemotherapies.

One of these treatments is called Photodynamic therapy, PDT.

This procedure is done as an outpatient, which means the patient does not have to be admitted into a hospital to have this done. The patient is injected with a drug that is light activated. This drug goes after the cancer cells. Between twenty-four and forty eight hours later the patient returns for the second part of the treatment. In this session a laser light in shone on the tumor cells. This directs a particular range of non-thermal red light into the skin cancer cells.

This activates the drug and allows it to do the job it was injected for; fight the cancer cells. It fights them without touching the healthy cells. This treatment is also preformed with a cream instead of being injected. The patient has the photodynamic therapy several hours later.

This method is easier on the patient then many others, has very few side effects and good results. There can be a little general body swelling. In addition, for a month after the treatment, the patient’s eyes and skin will be extra sensitive to sunlight. They must also be careful for the same period of time when outside in sunlight. That means wearing sunscreen, covering up with long sleeves, a hat and sunglasses.

The benefits to this therapy are several. First it requires only a minimal number of treatments. No more than three are necessary. The photodynamic therapy will treat the whole area and so there is little chance of missing any of the cancerous cells that it is trying to kill. There is very little if any scarring when the treatment is completed. Another benefit of this treatment is its relatively low cost.

It is so successful that many doctors feel that over time it will become available in the dermatologist’s offices instead of as an outpatient through hospitals or cancer clinics. Some doctors smile when they tell you of the results, claiming that when doing follow-up visits they need to get photographs from their files to show them where the skin cancer was because they are unable to tell otherwise.

Photodynamic therapy or PDT has only recently been available to the public, but with tremendous success. It was as recently as the middle 1990s that the medical fraternity were still getting approvals for the drugs used.

But now that this has all passed and the treatment of skin cancer is meeting with an almost overwhelming success rate this therapy is being tried on other types of cancers and having similar success rates. Gastrointestinal cancer, as well as pancreatic cancer, is showing positive results with more success to come.

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