Once your healthcare provider knows you have cancer, the next step is to find out the grade and stage of the cancer. Staging and grading of cancer is important for deciding how to treat it, and how curable it is.

In many cases, early-stage prostate cancer will not spread or cause any problems or side effects for a long time, if ever. That's why your healthcare provider may suggest active surveillance. This is the decision to watch prostate cancer, instead of treating it right away.

Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation from X-rays or particles to kill cancer cells. Learn how the treatment is used for pancreatic cancer.

Oral cancer is often curable, especially if it is found early. Treatment can also help control oral cancer, meaning it may help control symptoms or reduce its spread. Once you know the type and stage of oral cancer you have, you and your healthcare provider will decide on a treatment plan. Read on to learn more.

Radiation therapy is not a common treatment for melanoma, but it can be helpful in some cases. It may be used on its own, or along with other types of treatment.

Your healthcare provider may suggest immunotherapy if you have advanced melanoma.

Surgery is the most common way to treat melanoma. It might be the only treatment needed for early stage melanomas, and it's often part of the treatment for more advanced cancers.

Chemotherapy is a treatment that uses medicines to destroy cancer cells. It's an important part of treatment for most people with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Here's what you need to know.

Targeted therapy uses medicines that target specific parts of cancer cells or nearby cells that would normally help the cancer grow and spread. Targeted medicines can sometimes be more helpful than standard chemotherapy (chemo) medicines.

Targeted therapy medicines attack specific proteins or cell functions that help cancer cells grow. Like chemotherapy, these medicines work throughout the body, but they work in different ways. This means they can sometimes be helpful even if chemotherapy isn’t working.