Cancer Treatment: Response of Different Cancers to Chemotherapy

Leads to Cure:

· Blood cancer or acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children
· Cancer of lymphatic system or Burkitt’s lymphoma
· Hodgkin’s disease—a malignant tumour of lymphatic system
· Wilms’ tumour or tumour of the kidney common among children
· Cancer of the muscle or Rhabdomyosarcoma
· Cancer of the testes or Teratoma of the testes
· Cancer of the placenta or Choriocarcinoma
· Cancer of bone common among children or Ewing’s sarcoma

Leads to Prolongation of Life:

· Cancer of the breast
· Cancer of the ovaries
· Cancer of the lung, small-cell anaplastic type
· Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
· Acute myeloid leukaemia
· Brain cancer or Medulloblastoma

Marginal Benefit:

· Cancer of the stomach
· Cancer of the pancreas
· Bone cancer or Myeloma
· Soft tissues arcoma
· Cancer of the urinary bladder
· Cancer of the thyroid

No Benefit:

· Cancer of the lung, squamous cell type
· Cancer of the colon
· Cancer of the oesophagus
· Cancer of the skin or Melanoma

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