Treatment and Supportive Care Terms

Recreational therapy uses structured activities such as arts, music, and sports to support physical, emotional, and social functioning during illness or disability.

A treatment plan that specifies the dosage, the schedule, and the duration of treatment.

Treatment with anticancer drugs directed to a specific area of the body.

In medicine, a process to restore mental and/or physical abilities lost to injury or disease, in order to function in a normal or near-normal way.

A healthcare professional who helps people recover from an illness or injury and return to daily life.

Initial treatment with anticancer drugs to decrease the signs or symptoms of cancer or make them disappear.

A type of internal radiation treatment in which the radioactive source is removed between treatments.

One heading covers a nebulizer given for a few minutes and a ventilator running for weeks, so the phrase alone says nothing about intensity.

The patient is not the only person being looked after here; the point of the arrangement is to give the regular caregiver a break.

An attempt to buy time rather than a treatment in itself, keeping blood moving while somebody works out why it stopped.

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

Treatment that is given after the cancer has not responded to other treatments.

One treatment after the other.

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

A treatment plan is only as good as the ride to the appointment, and this is the part of care that supplies the ride.

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

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

One of the least specific words in medicine, it marks that treatment is happening while the word in front of it carries the detail.

Treatment of disease using heat.

Treatment with thyroid hormone, which is a hormone that affects heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature, and weight.