…Understanding Complementary Therapies booklet. Are they safe? Many complementary therapies have been evaluated and safe to use together with conventional cancer treatment and medicine. However, some complementary therapies can affect the way conventional treatment and medicine work, and even stop…
…treatment please refer to the Understanding Cancer Treatment booklet series. Understanding Radiation Therapy This booklet will help you understand more about radiation therapy, one of the main treatments for cancer. Radiation therapy is also known as radiotherapy. Radiation therapy…
A medical appointment after treatment has finished. Also known as a follow-up.
When a person does not receive immediate treatment, but instead has their health monitored regularly.
Persistent swelling in tissues as a result of obstruction or damage of lymphatic vessels or lymph nodes from infection, cancer or cancer treatment….
A treatment technique that uses electric current to stop bleeding.
A type of radiation therapy treatment that implants radioactive material sealed in needles or seeds into or near cancerous cells. Also called internal radiation therapy.
A treatment for kidney cancer in which the artery that feeds the diseased kidney is deliberately blocked. This causes the kidney and the tumour inside it to die.
Treatment that combines chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
A type of radiation therapy whereby single or multiple beams of radiation sweep around the body, greatly reducing treatment time….