Treatment and Supportive Care Terms

A type of therapy that uses dogs or other pets to improve the physical and mental health of patients with certain acute or chronic diseases.

Three ingredients are required and none does anything alone: the light-sensitive drug, the light itself, and oxygen already present in the tissue.

A type of radiation therapy that uses x-rays or gamma rays that come from a special machine called a linear accelerator (linac).

Phototherapy uses specific wavelengths of light to treat conditions ranging from newborn jaundice to psoriasis and certain mood disorders.

Most of the work is the exercise done between appointments, with the session spent assessing progress and adjusting the program.

physical therapy: therapy that uses physical agents: exercise and massage and other modalities Total of all natural (non-chirurgical) therapies applied to re-establish, to maintain or to improve the…

An inactive treatment or procedure that is intended to mimic as closely as possible a therapy in a clinical trial.

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

Initial treatment used to reduce a cancer.

Initial treatment used to reduce a cancer.

A type of radiation therapy that uses streams of protons (tiny particles with a positive charge) that come from a special machine.

Treatment of mental, emotional, personality, and behavioral disorders using methods such as discussion, listening, and counseling.

Education about behavior and lifestyle changes to help patients with chronic lung disease decrease breathing problems, return to daily activities, and improve quality of life.

A type of photodynamic therapy used to treat skin conditions such as psoriasis, vitiligo, and skin nodules of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.

A type of radiation therapy in which radioactive material sealed in needles, seeds, wires, or catheters is placed directly into or near a tumor.

Treatment can come from a machine outside the body, from a source placed inside it, or from a radioactive drug carried in the blood.

Iodine carrying a radioactive label, taken up by thyroid cells so that it can either photograph them or destroy them.

The use of radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies to treat diseases, including cancer.

A type of systemic radiation therapy in which a radioactive substance is linked to an antibody that locates and kills tumor cells when injected into the body.

High-energy radiation aimed at a tumor to break its DNA, given in many small doses so healthy tissue can recover.