Treatment options

Any treatments offered will depend on which cancer you have and at what stage you have been diagnosed with it. This will also depend on your fitness to tolerate treatment. The treatment may be:

 

• Surgery — Read more about cancer surgery at Royal Surrey.

 

• Radiotherapy
  This treatment uses radiation to destroy cancer cells, while doing as little harm as possible to normal cells. Learn more about radiotherapy at Royal Surrey Cancer Centre.

 

• Chemotherapy
  Chemotherapy is a cancer treatment where medicine is used to kill cancer cells. It stops the cancer cells reproducing, which prevents them from growing and spreading in your body. If chemotherapy is recommended by your team, it will be delivered intravenously (directly into your vein). This will be administered in Chilworth Day Unit.
  Learn more about chemotherapy at Royal Surrey Cancer Centre.

 

• Immunotherapy
  Immunotherapy is a cancer treatment which uses antibodies in your own immune system to fight the cancer. Discover more about immunotherapy.
  

 

You may require only one, or a combination of two or three treatments. All this will be discussed with you as appropriate.