Today, surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, i.e. ‘scalpel, ray, and pill’, remain the standard tumor therapies. Novel therapies like gene therapy or immunotherapy are only administered in the setting of experimental studies. In addition, outside ‘school’ medicine, a variety of ‘alternative’ treatments are sought by patients and their families who do not have full confidence in standard therapies.
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(2007). Cancer Therapy. In: Molecular Biology of Human Cancers. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3186-1_22
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