Choice of cancer treatment is influenced by several factors, including the specific characteristics of your cancer; your overall condition; and whether the goal of treatment is to cure your cancer, keep your cancer from spreading, or to relieve the symptoms caused by cancer. Depending on these factors, you may receive one or more of the following:
° Surgery
° Chemotherapy
° Radiation therapy
° Hormonal therapy
° Targeted therapy
° Biological therapy
One or more treatment alternatives may be used to provide you with the most effective treatment. Increasingly, it is common to use several treatment options together (concurrently) or in sequence with the goal of preventing recurrence. This is referred to as multi-modality treatment of the cancer.
