Treatment and Supportive Care Terms

A procedure that uses gold salts (a salt form of the metal element gold) to treat diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Changing what a person does by changing what happens around it, rather than by working out why the habit began.

Grief follows no fixed timetable and no set order of stages, despite the widely quoted model that is often read as though it did.

Treatment to boost or restore the ability of the immune system to fight cancer, infections, and other diseases.

Treatment to boost or restore the ability of the immune system to fight cancer, infections, and other diseases.

Treatment to boost or restore the ability of the immune system to fight cancer, infections, and other diseases.

A type of radiation therapy.

Brachytherapy delivers radiation from a sealed source placed directly inside or next to a tumor, concentrating the dose while sparing nearby tissue.

Treatment to boost or restore the ability of the immune system to fight cancer, infections, and other diseases.

A chemotherapy combination used to treat endometrial, ovarian, head and neck cancers, and non-small cell lung cancer that has spread.

A treatment used to help the immune system fight diseases, such as cancer and infections with certain viruses.

A type of external radiation therapy that uses a special machine to make invisible, high-energy particles (protons or helium ions) that kill cancer cells.

Chemotherapy combined with immunotherapy.

Two treatments given in the same weeks so that one sensitizes the tumor to the other, at the cost of harsher side effects.

Treatment that combines chemotherapy with radiation therapy.

Given in cycles rather than continuously, so the healthy tissues that renew fastest have time to recover between rounds.

A procedure that uses gold salts (a salt form of the metal element gold) to treat diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Chemotherapy or radiation therapy given to the central nervous system (CNS) as a preventive treatment.

A type of psychotherapy that helps patients change their behavior by changing the way they think and feel about certain things.

Treatment to reduce lymphedema (swelling caused by a buildup of lymph fluid in tissue).