Treatments of Cancer
Treatments of cancer include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, hormone therapy, immunotherapy, and surgical treatment
Explanation:
Chemotherapy: Chemical drugs that treat cancer.
Action: Drugs stops or slows down the rapid growth and shrinks the size of the cancer cells and reduces the pain and symptoms. It is used as adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapy.
Administration: Through IV, IA, IP lines; oral; and muscular and intrathecal injection.
Radiation therapy: High radiation doses
Action: Kills and shrinks cancer cells
Administration: external beam, brachytherapy
Hormone therapy: Acts on hormone-controlled cancer cells
Action: Slows and shrinks cancer cells. Eases symptoms
Administration: Oral, injection, surgical
Ìmmunotherapy: Biological therapy that enhances the immune system to act against the cancer cells
Action: Immune checkpoints, T-cell transfer, monoclonal action, immune modulator, cancer vaccines
Administration: IV, oral, intravesical, topical
Surgical treatment: Precision surgery that removes cancer cells, tissues or a part or whole organ depending upon the spread of cancer.
Action: Removes and debulks cancer cells, and eases symptoms
Administration: Surgical cut, cryosurgery, laser surgery, minimally invasive surgery
