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hormone therapy

A treatment that blocks the body’s natural hormones that help cancer grow. Also called hormone treatment.

personalised medicine

The application of the right treatment for the right patient, at the right dose, and at the right time. Also known as individualised treatment….

adjuvant therapy

A treatment given with or shortly after another treatment to enhance its effectiveness.

complementary therapies

Supportive treatments that are used in conjunction with conventional treatment. They might improve general health, wellbeing and quality of life, and help people cope with side effects of conventional cancer treatment.

androgen deprivation therapy

A treatment that blocks the body’s natural hormones that help cancer grow. Also called hormone therapy or hormone treatment.

late effects

Side effects of cancer treatment that occur several months or years after treatment.

remission

When the symptoms of the cancer reduce or disappear. A partial remission is when there has been a significant improvement in the cancer. A complete remission is when there is no evidence of active cancer….

Research snapshot – Non-cancer mortality among survivors of childhood cancer Youlden 2021

…on less intensive treatment regimens. What does this mean? Information on a greater than expected number of deaths following treatment can be used to guide clinicians in treatment decisions and patient surveillance to allow early intervention if possible, with the…

alternative therapies

Unproven therapies that are used in place of conventional treatment, often in the hope that they will provide a cure.

Research snapshot – Life expectancy changes after cancer by geographic location Kou 2020

…Queensland. Those who lived in more socioeconomically disadvantaged areas and those areas more than an hour travel from the closest radiation treatment facilities, had higher LOLE than those in the rest of the state. For cancer patients diagnosed in 2016,…