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Treatment & Side Effects

  1. Overview of Treatment

    1. Cancer Treatment: What Are the Options?
    2. Cancer Surgery
    3. Nuclear Medicine
    4. New Ideas in Cancer Treatment
    5. Is Your Cancer Treatment Working?

  2. Chemotherapy

    1. How Chemotherapy Works
    2. Chemotherapy vs. Radiation
    3. The Costs of Chemotherapy
    4. 10 Things You Didn't Know About Chemotherapy
    5. How to Take Chemo Drugs
    6. What Is a Chemo Port?
    7. Antimetabolite Drugs
    8. Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC)
    9. Pressurized Intraperitoneal Aerosolized Chemotherapy (PIPAC)
    10. Intrathecal Chemotherapy
    11. Chemotherapy Checklist
    12. What to Bring to a Chemo Treatment
    13. Prepare Your Home for Chemo
    14. When Your Chemotherapy Changes
    15. Daily Tips for for Chemo
    16. Living With Chemotherapy

  3. Chemo Side Effects

    1. Chemotherapy Side Effects
    2. Managing Chemo Side Effects
    3. How to Prepare for Hair Loss
    4. How to Handle Chemo Hair Loss
    5. Chemo Brain
    6. Managing Chemo Brain
    7. Chemo Fatigue
    8. Foods to Eat After Chemotherapy
    9. Remedies for Chemo Rash
    10. Chemo Mouth Sores
    11. Chemotherapy and Nausea
    12. How Chemo Affects Your Body After Treatment

  4. Radiation

    1. Radiation Therapy
    2. Proton Therapy
    3. Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
    4. Radioembolization
    5. Radiation Sickness
    6. Radiation Enteritis
    7. Radiation Burn
    8. Radiation Doses from CT Scans
    9. Cancer Caused by Radiation Therapy

  5. Immunotherapy

    1. Types of Immunotherapy

  6. Cutting-Edge Treatments

    1. Traditional vs. Precision Medicine
    2. Epigenetics and Cancer Treatment
    3. Is GcMAF a Potential Cancer Treatment?

  7. Complementary & Alternative Medicine

    1. Know the Limits of Holistic Care
    2. Is Amygdalin a Safe Cancer Treatment?
    3. Apricot Seeds for Cancer Treatment
    4. Graviola for Cancer Treatment
    5. Rick Simpson Oil (RSO) for Cancer
    6. Cancer and Vitamin D
    7. Can Turmeric Fight Cancer?
    8. Artemisinin for Cancer Treatment
    9. Rife Machines and Cancer
    10. The Budwig Diet

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