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Treatments for cancer patients
Treatments
Surgery: invasive technique to remove the tumor. Usually also extracted tissue surrounding the tumor, to prevent metastasis.
Radiation therapy: high-energy rays are used to damage cancer cells, thereby halting its growth and division.
Chemotherapy is drug treatment, which involves the injection of drugs that attack cancer cells in blood vessels or muscles. Chemotherapy is usually given in cycles, ie, after a treatment period is a recovery.
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