| | | | | Immunotherapy attempts to influence your body's |
| Adjuvant Therapy Abroad | | | | own immune system to fight off remaining cancer |
| | | | | cells. Immunotherapy can either stimulate your body's |
| Adjuvant Therapy | | | | own defenses or supplement them, for example, |
| | | | | putting antibodies or immune cells from another |
| Adjuvant therapy: Extra treatment to keep cancer | | | | person into your body. |
| from returning | | | | |
| Understand your options before you decide whether | | | | Targeted therapy |
| adjuvant therapy is for you. Balance the side effects | | | | Targeted therapy aims to alter specific abnormalities |
| with the benefits of treatment when making your | | | | present within cancer cells. For example, women with |
| decision. | | | | a type of breast cancer that makes too much of a |
| You've already had surgery to remove your tumor. | | | | protein called HER2 may choose a targeted therapy |
| But how can you be sure that some cancer cells | | | | drug that blocks the action of that specific protein. |
| haven't remained behind in other parts of your body? | | | | These medications target the specific protein, slowing |
| Your doctor might suggest something called | | | | the cancer's growth. More targeted therapies are |
| "adjuvant therapy" as a way to kill any remaining | | | | under development and may one day be available for |
| cancer cells that are too small to be seen by available | | | | use as adjuvant therapy. |
| tests. Adjuvant therapy is used after primary | | | | |
| treatments, such as surgery or radiation, to decrease | | | | How effective is adjuvant therapy ? |
| the chance that your cancer will recur. But the added | | | | Because none of these treatments is completely |
| benefit of adjuvant therapy doesn't come without a | | | | harmless, it's important to determine the risks of |
| price — the side effects can be more than minor | | | | adjuvant therapy versus the benefits. The following |
| inconveniences. | | | | factors can help you and your doctor determine |
| Not everyone benefits from adjuvant therapy. Work | | | | whether adjuvant therapy is appropriate for you and, |
| with your doctor to determine if adjuvant therapy is | | | | if so, which type... |
| right for you. | | | | |
| | | | | Is adjuvant therapy for you ? |
| Types of adjuvant therapy | | | | As you're deciding whether adjuvant therapy is right |
| Chemotherapy | | | | for you, you might want to discuss the following |
| Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill cancer cells, either | | | | issues with your doctor: What procedures are you |
| by preventing them from multiplying or by causing | | | | considering? Find out exactly what will be expected |
| the cells to self-destruct. Chemotherapy can reach | | | | of you during adjuvant therapy. Will you have to see |
| nearly every part of your body to kill cancer cells, no | | | | your doctor for injections or will you take pills at |
| matter where they may be. Adjuvant chemotherapy | | | | home? |
| isn't helpful for all cancers, so talk to your doctor | | | | What are the side effects? What side effects are |
| about whether this treatment is right for you. | | | | you willing to live with? Which ones will be too much |
| | | | | for you to tolerate? Do you plan to work or stay |
| Hormone therapy | | | | active during treatment? Could side effects interfere |
| Some cancers are sensitive to hormones in your | | | | with your plans?... |
| body. By reducing hormone production in your body | | | | |
| or by blocking the cancer's ability to accept your | | | | Please log on to : |
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| from growing. | | | | |
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| Radiation therapy | | | | We have a very simple business model that keeps |
| Radiation therapy uses high-powered X-rays to kill | | | | you as the centre. |
| cancer cells. Doctors recommend it as a primary | | | | Having the industry’s most elaborate and |
| treatment or as an adjuvant therapy. | | | | exclusive Patient Care and Clinical Coordination teams |
| Radiation therapy is given internally or externally, and | | | | stationed at each partner hospital, we provide you |
| it usually focuses on one area of your body. In rare | | | | the smoothest and seamless care ever imagined. |
| circumstances, you might receive radiation therapy | | | | With a ratio of one Patient Care Manager to five |
| over your entire body. | | | | patients our patient care standards are unmatched |
| | | | | across the sub continent. |
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