Cancer treatment encompasses various approaches and aspects tailored to patient needs. These include traditional approaches, palliative care (which focuses on managing symptoms), precision or personalized medicine, off-label drug use, biosimilar drugs, clinical trials, and complementary and alternative medicine.

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- Treatment resistance
- Types of treatment (e.g., surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy)
- Treatment approaches/aspects (e.g., palliative care, precision medicine)
- Other treatments (e.g., hyperthermia, complementary medicine)

Cancer Treatment

- "Staging is the process of finding out how much cancer is in a person’s body and where it’s located" (cancer.org).
- Staging is important in determining what treatments are necessary and the patient's prognosis (though the cancer stage isn't the only factor).

The children of this node will focus on:
- TNM Staging
- Other staging systems 
- When is cancer staged (clinical stage, surgical stage, post-therapy stage)
- Assigning overall stage (tends to be from Stage I to IV)

Cancer Stages

- Supportive care focuses on alleviating symptoms and improving the quality of life in patients with life-threatening chronic diseases. As a (good) side effect, this sometimes improves survival rates.
- As shown below, palliative care is supportive care for patients with late-stage disease, and hospice care is palliative care for patients near/at the end of life.

Supportive Care

Surgery, radiotherapy, cytotoxic chemotherapy, molecularly targed therapy, and immunotherapy are the pillars of cancer care.

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