→Surgery, radiation therapy and immunotherapy are commonly used to treat cancer.
→In radiation therapy, the tumor is treated with lethal radiation, but care is taken not to injure the surrounding normal cells.
→Some chemotherapy drugs (chemotherapeutic drugs) are used to kill cancer cells. Some of these drugs are specific for specific tumors.
→Most medicines have side effects like hair loss, anaemia etc.
→Most cancers are treated by combination of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
→Immunotherapy - involves use of biological response modifier like a-interferon which activates immune system to detect the cancer cells & destroy them.