Articles About Cancer Treatments

1. Understanding Cancer Treatment

   Article - Learn about the basic types of cancer treatments, including surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy.

2. Clinical Trials for Cancer Treatment: A Beginner's Guide

   Article - A clinical trial may offer your parent an effective cancer drug or treatment. Learn the pros and cons of clinical trials, and how to find one.

3. Treatment Options for Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer

   Article - Most skin cancers are not melanoma. Learn what the common nonmelanoma skin cancers are and the pros and cons of different ways to treat them.

4. What Is Radiation Therapy?

   Article - Help someone with cancer understand treatment options with this guide to radiation therapy -- what's available and how the different therapies work.

5. Treatment of Melanoma Skin Cancer

   Article - Melanoma is the least common but most dangerous type of skin cancer. Learn what contributes to staging melanoma and determining the best treatment.

6. Finding Support During Treatment for Liver Cancer

   Article - Dealing with your feelings is often easier as you learn more about the cancer and get support from others. Your healthcare team can answer your questions. Talking with friends and family or others who have had cancer can help. Meeting with a social worker, counselor, or member of your religious organization may also help you talk about your feelings...

7. Do What You Can to Ease Side Effects of Treatment for Liver Cancer

8. Radiation Therapy For Cancer Treatment

   Article - Radiation therapy (also called therapeutic radiology or radiation oncology) uses special kinds of energy waves or particles to fight cancer. Like surgery, radiation therapy is used in several ways depending on the type and location of the cancer. Certain levels of radiation work to destroy cancer cells or prevent cells from growing or reproducing...

9. Radiation Therapy: A Guide to Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy and the Latest Technology

   Article - Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) offers new cancer treatments. A guide to different IMRTs, how they work, and what each does best.

10. How to Create a Strong Cancer Support Team

    Article - Use these guidelines to assemble a cancer support team -- everyone from professional caregivers to family helpers.

11. 12 Ways to Cope With "Chemo Brain"

    Article - Strategies for helping someone who's being treated for cancer with issues of memory, concentration, and organization.

12. How to Ask for Help With Cancer Caregiving

    Article - Get support you can use in caring for someone with cancer with this guide to how to ask for assistance and ways to help you may not have thought of.

13. Nausea: Helping Someone With Cancer Maintain Appetite and Weight

    Article - An action plan for helping someone with cancer boost his appetite so he can get the nutrition he needs.

14. Neuropathy and Chemotherapy: What You Can Do

    Article - Chemotherapy can cause neuropathy, the medical term for nerve damage. Here's what you can do to prevent and minimize neuropathy and nerve damage.

15. Cancer Treatment and Nausea: What You Can Do

    Article - Chemotherapy is the number one cause of nausea in cancer patients. The first step to preventing nausea is to take the threat of nausea seriously.

16. Cancer and Mouth Sores

    Article - Learn how cancer chemotherapy can produce mouth sores in cancer patients, and how to help prevent mouth sores for loved ones undergoing cancer treatment at Caring.com.

17. Understanding a Cancer Prognosis

    Article - Unlike the diagnosis, which provides information about the type of cancer and where it originated, a cancer prognosis tells you how far the cancer has advanced and what happens next.

18. Getting a Second Opinion on a Cancer Diagnosis

    Article - Guidance from Caring.com on when, why, and how to get a second opinion on a cancer diagnosis.

19. Understanding Low Red Blood Counts

    Article - Read our cancer and red blood cells article and find helpful red blood cells information at Caring.com.

20. Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer: A Guide to the Latest Technology

    Article - Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) offers new treatments for breast cancer. A guide to different IMRTs, how they work, and what each does best.

21. Breast Cancer: Hormone Therapy

    Article - Breast cancer patients benefit from hormone therapy because it blocks the effects of hormones on tumor cell growth.

22. What to Expect After External Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Radiation therapy affects normal cells as well as cancer cells. Thus the side effects of radiation depend on the amount and the type of radiation you get. Be sure to let your doctor know of any side effects you have.

23. Treatment Options for Metastatic or Advanced Prostate Cancer

    Article - When prostate cancer has spread to places in your body that aren't close to your prostate, it's called advanced prostate cancer. It's also called metastatic prostate cancer. Your doctor may suggest one or more of these treatments if you have advanced prostate cancer.

24. Treatment Options for Local Prostate Cancer

    Article - When prostate cancer is confined to the prostate or has only spread to nearby areas, it is called early-stage prostate cancer. It’s also called local prostate cancer. Your doctor may suggest one or more of these treatments if you have local prostate cancer.

25. Making the Decision to Have Radiation Treatment for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Your doctor may suggest radiation treatment if any of these statements is true for you.

26. Goal of Radical Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Radical prostatectomy is the name of the surgery that removes a cancerous tumor. Its goal is to cure you of cancer. It involves removing all of the following:

27. The Different Ways You Can Get Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Here are some of the common ways your doctor can give you hormone therapy.

28. What to Expect After Radical Prostatectomy

    Article - Surgery to remove the prostate lasts from 1.5 to 4 hours. After the prostate and other structures are removed, your surgeon reattaches the remaining urethra to your bladder. While you’re still sleeping, your doctor will place a small tube for draining urine, called a catheter, in your penis. It willll stay in place for a few weeks...

29. Common Side Effects After Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Here's a list of common side effects that men with prostate cancer may have when getting hormone therapy.

30. Making the Decision to Have Hormone Treatment for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Your doctor may recommend hormone treatment if any of these applies to you.

31. Common Side Effects After Surgery for Prostate Cancer

    Article - It will take you a few weeks to feel better after surgery. Here are some of the things you can expect during your recovery.

32. Goal of Watchful Waiting for Prostate Cancer

    Article - The goal of watchful waiting is to delay other treatment for prostate cancer until, or unless, it shows signs that it's harming you. It can be the first choice for treatment if your cancer doesn't pose a serious threat to your quality or length of life.

33. What to Know About Your Treatment Choices for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Researchers are continually finding new ways to treat prostate cancer. Men diagnosed with it now have more hope for survival than ever before.

34. Surgery for Prostate Cancer

    Article - The following are some of the different surgical options used to treat prostate cancer:

35. What to Expect After Internal Radiation (Brachytherapy) Treatment for Prostate Cancer

    Article - These are some common side effects of internal radiation during the first week or so after the procedure.

36. Prostate Cancer Treatment

    Article - There are different types of treatment for patients with prostate cancer.

37. Hormone Therapy For Prostate Cancer

    Article - Produced mainly in the testicles, the male hormone testosterone causes prostate cancer cells to grow. Reducing testosterone levels can make the prostate cancer shrink and become less active.

38. What to Expect After Hormone Treatment for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Talk with your doctor the side effects you might have based on the type of hormone treatment you choose.

39. Making the Decision to Have Cryotherapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Right now most doctors don't recommend cryotherapy as the first choice for treatment. This treatment is more difficult if you've already had a TURP procedure. Your doctor may suggest it as a salvage therapy. That means it is used after another treatment that hasn't worked...

40. Questions to Ask About Treatment for Prostate Cancer

    Article - At first, the information you learn about treatment options may seem overwhelming. You may ease the stress by allowing yourself the time to gather as much information as possible about your disease and its treatment. That way, you can discuss the issues with your doctors, nurses, and loved ones.

41. Do What You Can to Ease Side Effects of Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer

    Article - It’s likely that you will have physical concerns since your cancer may cause symptoms and your treatment may cause side effects. The side effects depend on your treatment, and that depends on how much the cancer has spread from your pros...

42. Tell Your Healthcare Team How You Feel During Treatment for Prostate Cancer

43. What to Expect After Cystectomy for Bladder Cancer

44. What to Expect After Cystectomy for Bladder Cancer

45. Clinical Trials For Prostate Cancer

    Article - Clinical trials are studies, managed by government agencies, educational institutions, private not-for-profit organizations, or commercial businesses, to develop, produce, and evaluate the effectiveness of new treatments and preventive therapies for diseases.

46. Chemotherapy For Prostate Cancer

    Article - Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to treat cancerous cells. Specific treatment for prostate cancer will be determined by your physician based on:

47. Do What You Can to Ease Side Effects of Treatment for Localized Prostate Cancer

    Article - It's likely that you will have physical concerns since your cancer may cause symptoms and your treatment may cause side effects. The side effects depend on your treatment, and that depends on how much the cancer has spread from your prostate...

48. Goal of Chemotherapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells. Unfortunately, the drugs also harm healthy cells. Right now chemotherapy does not cure prostate cancer. But there are drugs that ease symptoms such as bone pain. Chemotherapy can also help decrease PSA levels and reduce the amount of cancer...

49. What to Expect After Chemotherapy for Prostate Cancer

    Article - The side effects of chemotherapy are different for everyone. They depend on these things.

50. What Are the Survival Rates for People With Lung Cancer?

    Article - For most people with small cell lung cancer, current treatments rarely cure the cancer for people who were diagnosed between 1996 and 2004. The same is true for most people with non-small cell lung cancer. Treatment will help ease symptoms and may improve your quality of life and help you live longer...

51. What to Know About Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) for Lung Cancer

    Article - Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a newer type of treatment. It is used for non-small cell lung cancer. Its goal is to ease symptoms. It’s also used to treat very small tumors in people who cannot have the usual treatments. PDT is a laser therapy. It’s used with a light-activated drug called Photofrin (in (porfimer sodium)...

52. What to Know About Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer

    Article - Radiation therapy is also called radiotherapy. It’s one more way to treat lung cancer. It’s most often used with surgery. Or it may be used alone or with chemotherapy. The goal of radiation is to kill cancer cells. It directs strong X-rays at the tumor. To get this treatment, you see a radiation onc oncologist...

53. Do What You Can to Ease Side Effects of Treatment and Symptoms of Lung Cancer

54. Fatigue: Management

    Article - Fatigue is a feeling of being physically, emotionally, or mentally tired, weak, or exhausted. It is a symptom of cancer itself and also the most common side effect of cancer treatment. Some people with cancer have described fatigue as being “tired to the bones” or “hitting a wall.” Others say it is y it is the most distressing side effect of cancer treatment...

55. Photodynamic Therapy: A Bright Approach to Lung Cancer Treatment

56. Gene Therapy: Targeting the Cause of Lung Cancer to Treat It

    Article - The American Cancer Society estimates that about 160,000 people die of lung cancer each year. This is more than the deaths caused by the next three leading cancers--colon, breast, and prostate--combined. The current treatment of lung cancer often includes combinations of chemotherapy drugs...

57. Tips for Feeling Your Best During Treatment for Lung Cancer

    Article - When you are being treated for lung cancer, it's likely that you will have side effects from that treatment and, perhaps, symptoms of the disease itself as well. For instance, the cancer can cause symptoms if the tumor puts pressure on an organ or body part and causes pain, or the tumor may interfere with the function of that organ or body part...

58. Making the Decision to Have Surgery for Lung Cancer

59. Goal of Lung Cancer Surgery

    Article - The goal of surgery is to remove the tumor from your lung. Your doctor will try to take out the tumor without harming other parts of your body, but he or she usually has to remove part or all of the cancerous lung.

60. Making the Decision to Have Targeted Therapy for Lung Cancer

    Article - Targeted therapy uses drugs that specifically target gene changes in cells that cause cancer. These drugs work differently than typical chemotherapy drugs and have different side effects.

61. Types and Goals of Treatment for Liver Cancer

    Article - Each type of treatment for liver cancer has a different goal. Here is a list of main treatments and their goals for liver cancer. They are listed in order from the most to least common. You may have more than one of these treatments.

62. Potential Side Effects from Surgery for Liver Cancer

    Article - After surgery, you may have pain in the area where the surgery was performed. This is normal and should not last long. Your surgeon will discuss with you other risks of the surgery. These are some of the most common other risks.

63. Chemotherapy for Liver Cancer

64. What to Know About Radiation for Liver Cancer

    Article - Radiation is sometimes used to help relieve the pain and discomfort of liver cancer by shrinking the tumor. A newer technique such as 3-D conformal radiation is often used rather than standard radiation therapy. Unfortunately, radiation therapy has not been shown to help improve survival of liver cancer...

65. What to Know About Surgery for Liver Cancer

    Article - Removing the tumor is the only way to cure liver cancer. Taking your whole tumor out will give you the best chance of survival. However, it can be hard to remove the whole tumor, even if it has not spread beyond the liver. Surgery may not be an option for people with cirrhosis who do not have enough healthy liver tissue remaining...

66. Lobectomy

    Article - (Thoracotomy, Thoracoscopic Lobectomy, Removal of a Lobe of the Lungs, Lung Surgery)

67. Nutrition and Cancer - General Nutrition Guidelines

68. What is Lung Cancer?

69. Managing Your Lung Cancer Symptoms

    Article - Most people with lung cancer have both the symptoms of their cancer and the side effects from treatment. Although people with lung cancer can have different symptoms, there are a few symptoms that most people with lung cancer have in common at some point in their illness. Here's a list of what they include...

70. Making the Decision to Have Chemotherapy to Treat Lung Cancer

    Article - Your doctor may suggest chemotherapy to treat lung cancer for any of the following situations:

71. What Happens During External Radiation Treatment for Lung Cancer

    Article - External radiation is the most common type of radiation given for lung cancer. You can get this as an outpatient in a hospital or a clinic. This type of radiation usually comes from a machine called a linear accelerator.

72. Making the Decision to Have Radiation Treatment for Lung Cancer

    Article - Radiation therapy (also called therapeutic radiology or radiation oncology) uses special kinds of energy waves or particles to fight cancer. Like surgery, radiation therapy is used in several ways depending on the type and location of the cancer. Certain levels of radiation work to destroy cancer cells or prevent cells from growing or reproducing...

73. What Happens During Surgery for Lung Cancer

    Article - You may have another type of treatment before surgery to make the tumor smaller and easier to remove. If so, it’s called neoadjuvant therapy. You may have chemotherapy alone. Or you may have chemotherapy and radiation. The goal of either is to help shrink the tumor so that it is easier to take out. ...

74. What Happens During PDT for Lung Cancer

    Article - You can usually have PDT as an outpatient, meaning you do not have to stay in the hospital. A trained nurse or doctor injects you with a drug called Photofrin (porfimer sodium). You'll be sent home for 24 to 72 hours while your cells absorb the drug...

75. Making the Decision to Have PDT for Lung Cancer

    Article - Your doctor may suggest PDT if you have stage 0 lung cancer. That means you have a very early tumor that is smaller than a dime. And, it is sitting on the inside of your windpipe or bronchi (the main tubes leading into the lungs) so that it is reachable via a tube passed through your airways...

76. Understanding Low White Blood Cell Counts

    Article - White blood cells are the body's best defensive weapons in the fight against germs and disease, so when white blood cell counts drop as a result of chemotherapy, radiation treatment, or certain types of cancer, it puts the patient in a vulnerable position...

77. Questions to Ask About Treatment for Lung Cancer

    Article - At first, the information you receive about treatment options may seem overwhelming. You may ease the stress by allowing yourself the time to gather as much information as possible about your disease and its treatment and to discuss the issues with your doctors, nurses, and loved ones.