cancer+treatments

There are 3 different types of cancer treatment. Surgery, Radiation therapy and drug therapy. Surgery is the method of treating cancers of the breast, colon and rectum, lung, stomach and uterus. Surgeons attempt to remove the tumour and any organs that are infected with cancer.Sometimes healthy tissues have to be removed also to help preventing the cancer from spreading. if you have breast cancer and your breast is remarked they may also remove your lymph organs. cancer could have spread to these organs then can rapidly spread to other parts of your body. Radiation therapy is the medical use of ionizing radiation as part of cancer treatment to control malignant cells. Radiotherapyis commoly used for the treatment of tumors, and may be used as primary therapy. It is also common to combine radiotherapy with surgery, chemotherapy, hormone therapy or some mixture of the three. Dug Therapy everyone knows that medicines are for - to make you feel better when you are sick. But many people don't relize that all medicines have risks as well as benefits. the ricks of medicines include unwanted sideeffects or interactions with food or other medicines you may be taking. some risks are not very serious, like an upset stomach. others, like liver damage, are more serious. back to what is cancer?