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The Rise the Cancer Survivorship Movement
Dr. Angela Dumbuya DNP, an Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse Practitioner, has been working with cancer patients for 15 years. In that time, she has seen changes in the way cancer is treated. Chemotherapy is still the most commonly used treatment, but there’s been a move towards immunotherapy, a therapy that helps the immune system fight cancer, and targeted therapy, which uses drugs to target specific genes and proteins that aid in the growth of cancer cells. More clinical trials are carried out for vaccines, and doctors have more access to diagnostic tools. The medical side has certainly seen a positive shift.
