Effective Fight Against Cancer : The Immune System

What role does the immune system play in keeping the body safe? Please be very specific [9 pts]

What are some of the things that come to mind when you think of cancer treatments? Perhaps you envision some sort of chemotherapy treatment, or a bottle of expensive pills used to target specific genetic mutations that may have caused the horrid disease to develop. While these treatments have been proven to save some of cancers victims, research suggests that there is a natural cure that deems promising in curing cancer.

The problem with such statements is cancer is very broad term that could apply to any type of cell in the body that reproduces uncontrollably. People who may have cancer would look towards these alternative treatments because they feel overwhelmed at their situation. Even if such a treatment has some relationship with elements of being able to cure certain cancers, how the body takes this treatment could completely negate it’s properties. The liver could very well change the components that would make it cancer fighting to begin with. But the worst offender of these kind of statements is that it gives people false hope. And if this false hope persists to long and it doesn’t help them, they would be in situation where their cancer might become terminal and they are at a

The immune systems helps the body fight off the other parts of our bodies and harmful substances such as disease, infection or bacteria. Some strategies for ensuring a healthy immune system are: don’t smoke, move your body which mean exercise regularly, eat diet food such as fruit and vegetable, get a good night sleep and maintain your healthy weight. These strategies are a good way to start giving your immune system the upper hand.

One of the most common illnesses that pharmacies and medical professionals have been trying to find a cure for is cancer. Cancer has many different types and stages, each with separate and devastating effects.

Americans are intelligent and inventive, we could figure out how to send a human to walk the moon when it was thought impossible, animals have been cloned and have survived. I find it peculiar that there has not been a cure for cancer thus far. There has been years of research and money raised for research to fight for a cure. According to the article, Why Medicine Won't Allow Cancer to Be Cured, (www.whynottryit.com) Western medicine is not closer to the discovery for finding a cure of cancer. Cancer has grown widespread in astonishing amounts. “According to the CDC, about 1,660,290 (1.66 million) new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in 2013”. (www.whynottryit.com)

Cancer is figured to be the second leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. With approximately 14 million new cases and 8.2 million cancer related deaths in 2012, alone .Why are so many people stuck suffering with this deadly disease? Millions of dollars have been invested into cancer research, yet there is no cure. Are these pharmaceutical companies focus on finding a cure for cancer or concentrating on elongated treatments in order to lengthen their pockets? We must first understand that cancer is big business earning huge profits. Nonetheless, the cancer industry is spending virtually zilch of its multi-billion dollar resources on effective prevention strategies, like dietary guidelines, exercise, natural remedies and herbs proven to cure cancer. Instead, it pours its money into treating cancer, not preventing or allaying it.

Cancer. We all know someone who has suffered from it or has passed away because of it. Cancer now affects one in every three people, and is the second highest cause of death in the United States. For decades, the medical community has been on the hunt for a cure for cancer, and have been subjected to intense ridicule from the public because of a lack of progression toward a possible cure. In recent years, many scientists, doctors, researchers, and the general public have come to believe that the cure for cancer is being suppressed because of this lack of progress. Those who say it is suppressed claim that the drugs used to treat cancer actually cause cancer, making a patient sicker and sicker. As a result, the patients are forced to spend

Considering certain types of cancer are very rare, it is very difficult to find a cure. Cancer does not really have a cure. Chemotherapy and radiation can heal it but it cannot cure it. The chemotherapy and radiation can only do so much.

The immune system has dual natures in series with non-self/self recognition being the most important. Other natures are adaptive/nature or acquired/innate, secondary/primary, passive/active, humoral/cell mediated and some parts or antigen specific. Antigen specific means when it recognizes certain antigens it will act upon them. Some pats are systemic which is the don't just stay at the infected area but go through the body and they have memory, so when they come the same antigen again they know, they will attack it even stronger. The non-self/self recognition is every cell has marker based on the major histocompatibility complex and cells without this marker or attacked as non-self. This works so well that proteins that are not digested treated the same as antigens.

The immune system, which is made up of special cells, proteins, tissues, and organs, defends people against germs and microorganisms every day. In most cases, the immune system does a great job of keeping people healthy and preventing infections. But sometimes problems with the immune system can lead

Fusi, A., & Dalgleish, A. (2017). The importance for immunoregulation for long-term cancer control. Future Oncology (London, England), 13(18), 1619-1632. doi:10.2217/fon-2017- 0085 [doi]

Could our own immune system perform a poorer job of eliminating cancerous tumors compared to a foreign virus? Even though we can theoretically give our immune system the necessary capabilities to specifically target cancer cells, practically we cannot modify the immune system to carry out this function efficiently. Cancer immunotherapy is a treatment where the body’s immune system is used to fight cancer. To achieve this, the cells of the immune system are made to recognize the cancer cells and attack them, thus eliminating the tumor. However, unfortunately our body’s immune system is not perfect and can let some cancer cells slip through its fingers. Therefore, we need a more efficient

Have you ever wondered how your body works? Did you ever think about how your body defends itself from outside invaders? Remember the last time you were sick. Did you know how your body fought and killed the sickness? All these questions can be answered by learning about one of the most important systems in your body, the immune system.

The human body is a very complex unit, did you know that our body works as a unit so that we can live each day healthy and energized. Well we are going to be talking about the human body and its immune system, and the importance of it. What we need to do to keep it working properly. What can cause things to go wrong and how to try and prevent them from happening? These things are all very important if we want to live a long and healthy life, with no interferences in the way we need to function.