Vaccines are medicines that help the body fight against the disease. Cancer vaccines help prevent and treat cancer. These vaccines prevent healthy individuals from getting certain cancers caused by viruses and it can work only if the individual gets the vaccine before getting infected with the virus. The two types of vaccines that prevent cancer include the HPV vaccine and the hepatitis B vaccine.
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Can lymph node surgery prevent cancer from spreading?
Query: Hi doctor, Before two years, my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer and has been undergoing treatment using Eligard and Xgeva. Early this year, he got diagnosed with vallecula carcinoma and for which he underwent chemo (Erbitux) six sittings and radiation therapy for 27 days. While vallecula... Read Full »
Answer: Hi, Welcome to icliniq.com. I went through the details of your father's illness and I will concentrate on the present problem. I will not agree with the advise for surgery of lymph nodes as PET scan suggests that it may have spread to other areas of lung, though not confirmed. Doing surgery for dise... Read Full »