Before Treatment
Being diagnosed with cancer can be overwhelming. Learning on your own about the disease, how it is treated, and how to apply this information to your situation is a daunting task. It is important to have frank, open discussions with your cancer care team. They want to answer all of your questions, but you need to know what to ask. When you understand your cancer and your options you can be an active participant in your cancer treatment. Getting answers to the following questions is a good beginning
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Know Your Options
Talk to your doctor about treatment options for your type and stage of cancer. Some of these options may include surgery, radiation treatment, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, delaying treatment, enrolling in a clinical trial, and not receiving treatment. People are often surprised to learn that they may have a few different treatment options.
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Questions and Answers About Chemotherapy
Depending on your type of cancer and how advanced it is, chemotherapy can:

• Cure cancer - when chemotherapy destroys cancer cells to the point that your doctor can no longer detect them in your body and they will not grow back.
• Control cancer - when chemotherapy keeps cancer from spreading, slows its growth, or destroys cancer cells that have spread to other parts of your body.
• Ease cancer symptoms (also called palliative care) - when chemotherapy shrinks tumors that are causing pain or pressure.

What is Radiation Therapy?
Radiation Therapy is a cancer treatment that uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and stop them from spreading. At low doses, radiation is used as an x-ray to see inside your body and take pictures, such as x-rays of your teeth or broken bones. Radiation used in cancer treatment works in much the same way, except that it is given at higher doses.
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What is Cryosurgery?
Cryosurgery (also called cryotherapy) is the use of extreme cold to destroy cancer cells. Traditionally, it has been used to treat external tumors, such as those on the skin, but recently some physicians have begun using it as a treatment for tumors that occur inside the body. Cryosurgery for internal tumors is increasing as a result of developments in technology over the past several years.
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Other Treatment Methods:

• Angiogenesis Inhibitors in the Treatment of Cancer
• Angiogenesis Inhibitors
• Biological Therapies for Cancer
• Bone Marrow Transplantation and Peripheral Blood Stem Cell Transplantation
• Gene Therapy for Cancer Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment
• Lasers in Cancer Treatment
• Photodynamic Therapy for Cancer
• Targeted Cancer Therapies

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