Esophageal Cancer: Treatment Questions
Talking with healthcare providers about your cancer can be overwhelming. Here are some questions to ask during your appointments.
Talking with healthcare providers about your cancer can be overwhelming. Here are some questions to ask during your appointments.
Targeted therapy medicines attack specific proteins or cell functions that help cancer cells grow.
In photodynamic therapy (PDT), you receive a light-activated medicine that tends to collect in cancer cells. Later the cells are exposed to a special light. This changes the medicine into a new form that kills the cancer cells.
In rare cases, CML may be treated with surgery to remove a swollen spleen. This is called a splenectomy. Here's what you need to know.
Radiation therapy is a treatment for cancer that uses high-energy X-rays to kill cancer cells or stop them from growing. Radiation therapy is also called radiotherapy. Its goal is to kill cancer cell or shrink tumors.
Chemo is often the first treatment used for CLL. It's not likely to cure CLL. But it can often help keep it under control. Here's what you need to know.
Here is a list of questions to ask your healthcare provider about treatment for anal cancer.
Watchful waiting is when treatment isn't started as soon as someone is diagnosed with a disease. Read on to learn why this is used for CLL.
When you have chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), surgery is sometimes done to remove a swollen spleen. But this is rare. This procedure is called a splenectomy.
There are many treatment choices for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Which one may work best for you?