Treating Cancer in Other Ways
Cancer treatments are tailored to the specific needs of the patient. Increasingly, it is common to use several treatments or (or modalities) at the same time or one after another in order to prevent or reduce the possibility that the tumor will regrow or metastasize to another part of the body. When treatments are combined it is called multimodality therapy. In addition to chemotherapy, other treatments or therapies include:1,2
1. What you need to know about cancer. National Cancer Institute. Updated February 2005. NIH Publication No. 06—1566. http://www.cancer.gov/pdf/WYNTK/WYNTK_Cancer.pdf. Accessed June 2, 2010.
2. Dictionary of cancer terms—definition of multimodality. National Cancer Institute website. http://www.cancer.gov/Templates/db_alpha.aspx?CdrID=45792. Accessed June 2, 2010.
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