Articles and interviews
08.08.2011
Scalpel decides not all
Statistics shows that in Ukraine the incidence of cancer is 315 cases per 100,000 population, mortality from this serious illness under 200 cases. Every hour in the country registered 20 new cases of cancer during the same time kills 12 onkohoryh. However, statistics say that 54% of cancer patients in Ukraine radically cured. But doctors, who instead of statistical reports, see the eyes of their patients, not satisfied with such results. For radically treated patients considered that managed to survive at least 5 years after surgical removal of malignant tumors, the course of radiation and chemotherapy. And then? Then it is necessary to recall the words of the founder pathophysiology Bogomolets that the cancer - this is not a local process, and disease of the whole organism.
Surgical intervention (which is impossible without cancer) is just aimed at how to overcome the local process. To remove the tumor in the patient begins the real struggle for survival - between tumor cells, which remained "unnoticed" scalpel, and the body itself, which in case of resistance to the preservation onkoklityn recognizes and eliminates. And then the patient will die of disease recurrence and metastases. High cancer mortality rates, as well as its tendency to increase (at 1.5-2%) just shows that the old standards of cancer treatment can not provide a radical cure of patients in the true sense of the word.
And that made "record" cancer survival (although 54% - very low, say experts) could not overcome here already for several decades, is the most convincing proof that the old regimen oncopathology exhausted their potential.
- Golden hands of a surgeon - not the only key to solving the problem. Modern peace ¬ ing of science, in light of which cancer treated at the level of violations of signal transduction cell spryamovu ¬ yut Practitioners necessary for implementing a broader hidnist ¬ ¬ tion of Therapeutic Oncology - found, director of the Institute that ¬ Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology . Kavetsky National Academy of Sciences, corresponding member of HAH Ukraine Vasyl Chekhun. - Finally, the civilized world and ¬ kymy approaches have not zdyvu ¬ yesh. As such understanding in ¬ nyat as genomics, proteomics, transkryptomika. That they are to understand the complex ¬ ¬ assist sleep system transformation ¬ Rehoboam healthy cells into malignant ones and IU ¬ nisms which damaged vnas ¬ lidok this transformation, and this in turn allows you to purposefully influence the op ¬ organisms in order to achieve bio ¬ logical balance and interaction between tumor cells and organisms ¬ IOM for the latter.
Onkoimunolohiya - this is the science of the interaction between tumor cells and the immune system, as well as the consequences of this interaction and the factors that prevent recognition and destruction of tumor cells. Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology. Kavetsky NAS of Ukraine for many years been one of the scientific centers of research in this direction and, above all, in development of new approaches to imunodiahnostyky and immunotherapy of malignant neoplasms.
The conference discussed developments in the field of immunotherapy of malignant tumors, including treatment of tumors resistant to the action of chemotherapy.
Among the new approaches to immunotherapy marked development of methods for determining individual sensitivity of tumors to various drugs to immunotropic reasonable choice drug for treatment, develop terms of improved functional activity of lymphocytes (cells that can destroy tumor cells); imunosorbentiv development based on high-carbon sorbents for the new generation removal from the blood of cancer patients immunosuppressive substances and anti-tumor toxemia.
Significant place in the conference was devoted research for a novel anticancer vaccines using infectious (bacterial and viral) factors related to etiological factors in the development of precancerous diseases. Joint efforts of the Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology, Institute of Oncology and aimed at a solution to increase efficiency and availability of such vaccines and their use in everyday practice for onkoloachiniy ANTI antimetastatic and prevention after surgical removal of tumors.
An important focus of increasing radicalism treatment of cancer (and in the surgeons and onkoterapevty yet agreed) is the early diagnosis of cancer. To this aim and imunodiahnostyka malignancies. Scientific research and practical development specialists of the Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology in this direction, especially in the field of diagnostics imunotsytohimichnoyi lymphoproliferative diseases, meet the world standards and lead not only in Ukraine.
With great interest to the participants perceived the information about the achievements of molecular biology to create molecular markers to characterize the malignant process in various tumor diseases. The only thing that did not add optimism nor scientists nor practitioners - understanding how long-term financial capacity of the national Oncology achievements of modern science. With regret it must be noted that diagnosis and modern treatment methods "afford" only our individual cancer. Not enough money even to buy reagents, not to mention equipment for molecular diagnostics. And doctors who have engaged in biotherapy, you will not find even in theory (it appears in the list of medical specialties physician-oncologist is not even mentioned). To paraphrase a famous phrase, we get "what the patient - because poor, poor things - because the patient." But no words of comfort, not a man who, moving towards death, knows that there lies the path of life. Svetlana Ternova, "Your Health".