What is NOT true about the treatment of cancer? A. How to treat patients merely rests on the type of cell forming the cancer. B. Radiotherapy can hardly address advanced non-small cell cancer virtually. C. Both radiotherapy and chemotherapy can be used to treat small cell cancer. D. ...
For mild cancer pain, the recommendation is acetaminophen and NSAIDs. Opioids are used for more severe pain or when acetaminophen and NSAIDs are no longer effective. This is the only time that opioids are effective in cancer. Regarding end-of-life pain, opioids are not used to treat the ...
How to decide which breast surgery is right for you Surgery for breast cancer depends on several factors including the size and location of the tumor(s), stage of cancer, treatment options, and individual goals and preferences. While surgery will not fully treat metastatic breast cancer, it can...
D Makower,JA Sparano - 《Current Treatment Options in Oncology》 被引量: 8发表: 2013年 How Do I Treat Inflammatory Breast Cancer? treatment are derived from retrospective analyses, small studies, and extrapolation of results from trials of noninflammatory locally advanced breast cancer. Pat... De...
What are the treatment options? Current guidelinesrecommend two main approaches for managing women who screen positive for cervical pre-cancer: screen and treat; or screen, diagnose and treat. Both approaches involve an initial screening test, typically a pap smear or HPV test, followed by treatmen...
To summarize: Stages I and II are known as early (localized) prostate cancer Stage III is known as locally advanced prostate cancer. Stage IV is known as advanced (metastatic) prostate cancer. What are the possible treatment options for prostate cancer? Staging is not the only information that...
6 Noninvasive breast cancer may occur in up to 15% of all patients. TREATMENT As with most malignancies, treatment options are individualized to the patient’s therapeutic needs (figure 2).4 However, standards of practice outlined by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network show that patients ...
Klein EA. What is the best way to treat high-risk prostate cancer? Cancer. 2011; 118 (1):12–14.Eric A., Klein. (2012) What is the best way to treat high-risk prostate cancer?. Cancer 118 , 12-14 /Eric A. Klein. (2012) What is the best way to treat high-risk prostate ...
The cancer is usually found before it spreads to other organs or tissue. Your thyroid is a small, butterfly shaped gland in your neck. It makes hormones that help control your body temperature, heart rate, growth, and weight.What are the signs and symptoms of thyroid cancer?
You may also need insulin to control your blood sugar level. Radiation therapy uses x-rays or gamma rays to treat cancer. Radiation kills cancer cells and may stop the cancer from spreading. It is also used to reduce symptoms, such as pain. Chemotherapy is medicine that kills cancer cells....