Cancer+Treatment+Questions

Surgical Oncology: Chemotherapy: Radiation Therapy: Stem Cell Transplantation Immunotherapy: Hormone Therapy: Like chemotherapy, hormonal therapy is a systemic treatment; it can affect cancer cells throughout the body. When a man undergoes hormone therapy, the level of male hormones is decreased. This drop in hormone level can affect all prostate cancer cells, even if they have spread to other parts of the body. Hormone therapy with tamoxifen is often given to women with early stages of breast cancer and those with metastatic breast cancer (cancer that has spread to other parts of the body).
 * Current Cancer Treatments:**
 * Certain types of cancer are treated most effectively by simply removing the tumor surgically. Surgery is the oldest form of treating cancer and can also have an important role in diagnosing and staging of cancer. The expert surgeons at Cancer Treatment Centers of America are skilled in the most sophisticated surgical techniques.
 * Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with drugs that can destroy cancer cells by impeding their growth and reproduction. These drugs often are called "anticancer" drugs. Chemotherapy drugs are given intravenously, by injection or by mouth. Chemotherapy is often used alone, or in conjunction with radiation therapy or surgery.
 * Radiation therapy is one of the three traditional primary forms of medical treatment used by the experts at Cancer Treatment Centers of America to treat your cancer, and for relief of symptoms. It may be used alone or in combination with surgery or chemotherapy, almost anywhere within your body. Innovative new techniques have evolved and are still evolving, enabling delivery of higher radiation doses to cancer cells and limited doses to your normal tissue.
 * Stop, control, or suppress processes that permit cancer growth;
 * Make cancer cells more recognizable, and therefore more susceptible, to destruction by your immune system;
 * Boost the killing power of your immune system cells, such as T-cells, NK-cells, and macrophages;
 * Alter cancer cells' growth patterns to promote behavior like that of healthy cells;
 * Block or reverse the process that changes a normal cell or a pre-cancerous cell into a cancerous cell;
 * Enhance your body’s ability to repair or replace normal cells damaged or destroyed by other forms of cancer treatment, such as chemotherapy or radiation; and
 * Prevent cancer cells from spreading to other parts of your body.

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