Cancer is not a mild disease. Early step in cancer treatment is correctly detecting that the symptoms that appear on the patient's body is truly malignant cancer cells. This detection can be done by examination of biopsy, so that the treatment step can be done quickly and accurately. The next step is treatment with conventional therapy. But in fact this way of treatment of cancer often can not be solved totally. Here, the role of medicinal plants / herbs.
The main role is to promote herbal body resistance of patients and localized kaker cells so that cancer cells do not easily spread, and more easily removed, also not toxic so it is more safe for the patient's body. An example is a medicinal plant extracts rat taro (Typhonium Flagelliforme). In use, medicinal plants can be used in conjunction with conventional treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hormonterapi) or after conventional treatment has been completed. Because the drug from rat taro extract can help reduce the effects of conventional treatment.
The number of cancer patients in Indonesia is not yet clearly known, but increased from year to year can be proved as a cause of death. Only a few cancers that can be treated satisfactorily, especially if treated at an early stage still. Treatment success is largely determined by the type of cancer, cancer stage, general condition of patients, and efforts to heal the patient.