Treatments
What is Radiotherapy?
Radiotherapy is the use of high energy X-rays, and other types of radiation, to treat cancer. Radiotherapy may be used as the main treatment, or with surgery and/or chemotherapy.
What is Chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy is a type of cancer treatment. Other treatments include surgery, radiotherapy, immunotherapy or hormone treatment. Some people need to have more than one type of treatment, for example, surgery followed by chemotherapy.
Chemotherapy is treatment with drugs, which destroy or control cancer cells. These may be given as tablets, or by an injection or drip into a vein. Sometimes, chemotherapy may be given in an injection under the skin, into the muscle or into another part of the body.
There are many different chemotherapy drugs, which may be used on their own or with other drugs.