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Cancer Surgery
Surgery is the oldest form of cancer treatment. It also plays a key role in the process of diagnosing cancer and finding out how far it has spread. This process is called staging. Advances in surgical techniques have allowed surgeons to operate...
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Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy is drug treatment which is used to try and kill cancer cells or stop them spreading.
Different cancer cells respond to different drugs, so not all chemotherapy is the same.
Sometimes as many as eight different drugs is employed...
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Cyberknife Cancer Treatment
Cyberknife is a non-invasive frameless stereotactic radiosurgery system that treats tumors anywhere in the body. Cyberknife is the robotic system that utilizes the skeletal structure of the body as a reference, eliminating the need for the...
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Hormone Therapy
Hormone therapy (hormone treatment) is treating a disease with hormones, or by blocking the action of hormones.
Hormone therapy (HT) is used to treat certain cancers that depend on hormones to grow and spread. Patients who undergo this...
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Immunotherapy
Immunotherapy stimulates the immune system to help fight cancer. This can be accomplished by using a cancer vaccine, antibody therapy, or non specific immunotherapies.
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Lung Cancer Treatment
Lung cancer is currently the leading cause of death among the various types of cancer - and smoking is its major cause. Secondhand smoke has been identified as a cause of the disease, as has exposure to asbestos, arsenic, radon, and radioactive...
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Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy is the use of high energy X-rays to kill cancer cells in the area of the body being treated. Normal cells in the treated area will also be affected by Radiotherapy but they are able to repair themselves very quickly. Cancer cells are...
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