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Recent Treatment for Colon Cancer.

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Cancer treatment is a highly specialized process. The treatment choice is often influenced by various factors such as the type of cancer, age, stage, site, the physical condition of the patient, symptoms etc. With such a significant number of factors to consider, the diagnosis needs to be specialized in a particular way, comprehensive and co-ordinated to arrive at the correct treatment plan. For the past 50 years, oncologists have had fundamental medications available, agents, that can induce tumor reactions in patients with colorectal cancer . However, in cases of advanced colorectal cancer, these regimens are never healing.  The recently introduced concept of cancer stem cells (SCs) drive tumor growth suggests a reason for these therapeutic failures. Current chemotherapeutics target quickly dividing cells but cancer SCs divide only slowly, and, they are moderately resistant to cytotoxic fundamental therapies. It also proposes a solution—development of therapeutics that tar