1 / 11

Treatment

Treatment. Common forms of Treatment. Surgery Hormone therapy Drug therapy (Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy and Gene therapy) Radiotherapy. Pre and Post treatment. Neo-Adjuvant is treatment prior to surgery in order to downstage the tumour

dysis
Download Presentation

Treatment

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Treatment

  2. Common forms of Treatment • Surgery • Hormone therapy • Drug therapy (Chemotherapy, Immunotherapy and Gene therapy) • Radiotherapy

  3. Pre and Post treatment • Neo-Adjuvant is treatment prior to surgery in order to downstage the tumour • Adjuvant treatment is other treatment after surgery in order to lower the risk of tumour reccurence.

  4. Radical or Palliative • Radical (Curative) • Majority are treated with a combination of treatments i.e. Surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy • Palliative

  5. Surgery • Surgery is the most common treatment for solid tumours. • Exceptions would be breast tumours in the elderly

  6. Radiotherapy • Treatment of disease with high energy radiation used to damage cancer cells • External • Teletherapy • Internally • Brachytherapy

  7. Chemotherapy • ‘Chemical therapy’ • Systemic treatment

  8. Treatments (continued) • Hormone therapy • Immunotherapy

  9. Immunotherapy • Immunotherapy is the use of the immune system to fight cancer. Most cancer develop ways of evading the immune system. • Monoclonal antibodies are the production of large amounts of antibodies in a lab to treat particular cancers

  10. Gene Therapy • Gene Therapy – DNA into cells to produce protein to fight the disease

  11. Tumour Types

More Related