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Types of Treatment
What treatment is best for you? Which methods have proven to be most effective? Here you can find answers to your questions, plus learn about what to ask your physician, what's new in research, and what you can expect after treatment is over.
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy: What It Is, How It Helps
Learn the basics of how chemotherapy works to treat cancer.
Chemotherapy Principles
An In-depth guide.
Understanding Chemotherapy: A Guide for Patients and Families
Find answers to your questions about chemotherapy and managing side effects.
Oral Chemotherapy
Get general information on taking chemotherapy as a liquid, tablet, or capsule.
Radiation Therapy
Radiation Therapy Principles
An In-depth guide.
Understanding Radiation Therapy: A Guide for Patients and Families
Find answers to your questions about radiation therapy and managing side effects.
Other Types of Treatment
Surgery
Learn about the different types of surgery used to treat or prevent cancer.
Targeted Therapy
Learn how this treatment uses drugs or other substances to identify and attack cancer cells while doing little damage to normal cells.
Immunotherapy
Learn how this treatment uses your body's own defense system to fight cancer.
Photodynamic Therapy
Learn how this treatment uses drugs, called photosensitizing agents, along with light to kill cancer cells.
Antiangiogenesis Therapy
Learn about this form of targeted therapy that uses drugs or other substances to stop tumors from making new blood vessels.
Hyperthermia
Learn about this carefully controlled use of heat for the treatment of cancer.
Bone Marrow and Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
Learn how stem cell transplants can be used to treat cancer or to replace bone marrow that has been destroyed.
Gene Therapy: Questions and Answers
Learn how Gene Therapy may be used to treat (or even prevent) cancer in the future.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Learn about complementary and alternative therapies, and how to know which ones are safe.
Getting Specific
  Choose from the list below to get information and resources for a specific cancer topic whenever you see this heading.  
 
 

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Staging
Informed Consent
Infections in People with Cancer
Lasers in Cancer Treatment
Off-Label Drug Use
Compassionate Drug Use
Smallpox Vaccine
Blood Product Donation and Transfusion
 Treatment Worksheets
It's important to talk openly with your doctor about your cancer treatment. But where do you begin? What should you ask? Use our detailed worksheets to understand your specific cancer, your treatment options, and what questions you should raise during your next visit.
 
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