what types if cancer treatments are there?
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Chemotherapy and chemotherapy drugs.
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Chemotherapy, radiation treatment and surgery.
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The type of cancer treatment doctor recommends depends on the type of cancer, the size and location of the tumor, whether the cancer has spread, and overall health. The most common cancer treatments include surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. These therapies may be used either alone or in combination with other therapies. Other cancer treatment options include targeted therapy, immunotherapy, hormone therapy, and bone marrow/stem cell transplantation. In addition, patients are encouraged to consider clinical trials when making treatment plan decisions. A clinical trial is a research study to test a new treatment to prove it is safe, effective, and possibly better than the standard treatment. Your doctor can help you review all clinical trial options. The first treatment a person is given is called first-line therapy. Adjuvant therapy is treatment that is given after the first treatment (such as chemotherapy after surgery). Neoadjuvant therapy is treatment that is given before the primary treatment (such as radiation therapy before surgery). As cancer care becomes more specialized, many people are now treated by a team of doctors, nurses, and other health care specialists. Usually one doctor, often the medical oncologist, will lead the coordination of the person's care. Learn more about the oncology team. It is also important that people with cancer and their families feel comfortable about their doctor and his or her recommended treatment plan. It is always appropriate to seek a second opinion.
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The treatment of the cancer depends on the type of cancer. Location of the cancer Whether the cancer is malignant. The stage how far advance it is. General condition of the patient. Chemotherpy uses drugs to destroy the cancer. The down fall is it does not know good cells from bad cells. Which is why allot people loose their hair. It ether eliminates the cancer. control and slow the growth of the cancer to prolong the patients life. reduces the size of the cancer to eliminate pain and improve quality of life. It can cause alopecia loss air. Nausea and vomiting. anorexia anemia, fatigue, low white blood cell count, less platelets in the blood. Radiation therapy involves the use of high energy ionized beans at the site of the cancer. This treatment is good because it doe snot destroy healthy tissue. I have seen patients with red markings there arms. It is important not to wash the markings the doc or nurse put on the arm. Thats where they use that spot for inserting medication. Then their is immunotherpy. It alters the patients immune response and eliminate the cancer. Various biological agents are given to change normal immune response. If you know someone who is dying they can go to hospice and pallative care. Allot people want to know the difference. hey both specialize in comfort care of when you are dying. Pallative care more likely to shrink a tumor if it was pressing on your spinal cord making life painful when you are dying. Hospice method would be to just give you morphine. Surgery is usally first done to get a boipsy to test if it is cancerous. Then if it is cacnerous they remove the cancer. It may involve removal of part of the organ lungs, breast ect.. The surgeon removes as much of the cancer as possiable. If he can not remove it all other methoids are used.
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