Types of Cancer treatment methods
Across
- 2. a drug treatment that uses powerful chemicals to kill fast-growing cells in your body
- 4. disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body.
- 7. a type of treatment in which body tissue is heated to as high as 113 °F to help damage and kill cancer cells with little or no harm to normal tissue.
- 8. a type of cancer treatment that helps your immune system fight cancer. The immune system helps your body fight infections and other diseases.
Down
- 1. a type of cancer treatment that targets proteins that control how cancer cells grow, divide, and spread. It is the foundation of precision medicine.
- 3. a drug that is activated by light, called a photosensitizer or photosensitizing agent, to kill cancer cells. The light can come from a laser or other source, such as LEDs.
- 5. when used to treat cancer, is a procedure in which a surgeon removes cancer from your body.
- 6. a cancer treatment that uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. At low doses, radiation is used in x-rays to see inside your body, as with x-rays of your teeth or broken bones.