When a few cells of one's body turn roguish and start a mutiny within the body, making other cells to work against the body, the body's immune system is at a loss to curb the revolution. In an attempt to eliminate the rogue cells, the immune system fails to differentiate between the good and the bad and ends up eating away both the good and bad. When in this way the body starts eroding from inside, the doctors diagnose the body as having cancer. Cancer is one of those much feared diseases, which does not yet have a definitive cure, but is growing in incidence among the world's population.

The Bane of Breast Cancer

While there are many types of cancer, the mutiny having the potency to break out anywhere in the body, breast cancer is the one that is the most demeaning, affecting women. Though this disease is not so common in India, it is not so uncommon too now, what with researches finding increased number of breast cancer incidences in India in recent times. The most common cure for breast cancer is a surgery performed on the breast that removes the affected cells, sometimes the whole breast. Though this is an effective method, it effects a fatal blow to the confidence and morale of the women who undergo this surgery, since their appearance and figure is lost. Despite this, most of the women afflicted by this condition opt in for Breast Cancer Surgery India, owing to the prevalence of this method and lack of knowledge of any other method. Such surgery is usually done in combination with radiation therapy, which in itself is a very painful method of treatment.

Cancer in Children

Another type of cancer that brings tears to one's eyes is the pediatric cancer. That small children should get afflicted with this condition is a very pitiful thing. India reports a high rate in childhood cancer incidences, with nearly 1.5 to 4.8% of all cancers affecting the population below 15 years of age. The most prevalent type of cancer among children is leukemia, or blood cancer. This is followed by lymphoma and Hodgkin Disease. Most hospitals use chemotherapy, or Radio Therapy India for pediatric cancer treatment. However, this treatment can be so intense and and cause so much pain and morbidity that very often children refuse or abandon the treatment, leading to a higher mortality from pediatric cancer.

The Cure and After

Cancer usually propagates in the body by the malfunction of stem cells in the bone marrow, producing an excessive number of defective or immature blood cells which interfere with the production of normal blood cells, accumulate in the bloodstream and may invade other tissues. Large doses of radiation are required to destroy these abnormal cells and can also end up killing the healthy bone marrow. Many hospitals resort to Bone marrow transplant in India to replace the damaged bone marrow, so that cancer can be prevented from reappearing. This increases the possibility of disease-free survival for the patient, empowering him to live a normal life again.