Treatment and Supportive Care Terms

A treatment that is given at the same time as another.

Treatment that is given after cancer has disappeared following the initial therapy.

Paying people, in vouchers or prizes, for verified evidence of a target behavior, and among the best supported approaches in addiction care.

A currently accepted and widely used treatment for a certain type of disease, based on the results of past research.

A currently accepted and widely used treatment for a certain type of disease, based on the results of past research.

The learned habits a person falls back on under pressure, some of which reduce the strain and some of which postpone it.

The word stretches from grief support to a genetics appointment, so the qualifier in front of it carries most of the meaning.

Cold used to soothe and cold used to kill tissue share one name, separated only by how far the temperature is taken.

Anticancer drugs that kill cells, especially cancer cells.

An abbreviation for a chemotherapy combination used with other types of therapy to treat colorectal cancer.

The treatment plan for a disease or disorder that has been chosen as the best one for a patient after all other choices have been considered.

A chemotherapy treatment plan in which drugs are given with less time between treatments than in a standard chemotherapy treatment plan.

Speed is the usual reason it is chosen, since a response can arrive faster than medication typically achieves in severe illness.

A treatment for severe depression and certain mental disorders.

Treatment that generates electrical pulses through an electrode placed in a tumor to enhance the ability of anticancer drugs to enter tumor cells.

The name survives from an era the procedure no longer resembles, since it is now given under anesthesia with no visible convulsion at all.

A form of complementary and alternative medicine based on the belief that a vital energy flows through the human body.

Hormones given to postmenopausal women or to women who have had their ovaries surgically removed.

A type of radiation therapy that uses a machine to aim high-energy rays at the cancer from outside of the body.

A type of radiation therapy that uses a machine to aim high-energy rays at the cancer from outside of the body.