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One of the biggest threat to Medical science which has emerged as a major challenge is Cancer! Though, Cancer can be treated by surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormonal therapy, targeted therapy including immunotherapy such as monoclonal antibody therapy and synthetic lethality. The choice of therapy depends upon the location and grade of the tumour and the stage of the disease, as well as the general state of the patient and the so called performance status. A number of experimental cancer treatments are also under development. Under current estimates, two in five people will have cancer at some point in their lifetime. Complete removal of the cancer without damage to the rest of the body (that is, achieving cure with near-zero adverse effects) is the ideal goal of treatment and is often the goal in practice. Sometimes this can be accomplished by surgery, but the propensity of cancers to invade adjacent tissue or to spread to distant sites by microscopic metastasis often limits its effectiveness; and chemotherapy and radiotherapy can have a negative effect on normal cells.Therefore, cure with nonnegligible adverse effects may be accepted as a practical goal in some cases; and besides curative intent, practical goals of therapy can also include suppressing the cancer to a subclinical state and maintaining that state for years of good quality of life (that is, treating the cancer as a chronic disease), and palliative care without curative intent (for advanced-stage metastatic cancers). Most of the cancer therapy conference talks about the patient health and the mental trauma that they go through. Counselling is very important for any cancer patient. Cancer as scary as it sounds, takes away the confidences toxicates the life of the people suffering from it. So apart from the treatment and the research, Cancer Therapy conference also talks about the medical condition of the patient!