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  3. Cancer Handbook: How Is Cancer Treated?
  4. Types of Treatment For Cancer

How is cancer treated?

There are many treatments for cancer. Each type of cancer is treated differently. Sometimes, several types of treatments are given to kill a particular type of cancer cell. 

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Types of treatment for cancer

Chemotherapy
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Cryotherapy
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Immunotherapy
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Radiotherapy
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Stem cell transplant
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Surgery
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Targeted therapy
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The cancer handbook
  • Types of cancers
    • Bone cancers
    • Brain cancer
    • Germ cell tumours
    • Leukaemia
    • Lymphoma
    • Neuroblastoma
    • Retinoblastoma
    • Sarcoma
    • Wilms tumour
  • About cancer
    • Causes of childhood cancer
    • Initial diagnosis
    • Staging for solid tumours
    • Cancer myths
    • Donate blood and save lives
    • Explaining cancer to your child
      • Discipline during treatment
      • Why it's good to tell your child
      • How to explain cancer to your child
      • Coping strategies by age
    • Managing cancer as a family
      • Coping with your child's diagnosis
      • Cancer and impact on parents and partners
      • Cancer and impact on siblings
      • Cancer and impact on grandparents
    • Childhood cancer versus adult cancer
  • Tests and procedures
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    • Preparing for procedures
  • Cancer handbook: How is cancer treated?
    • Your healthcare team
    • Daily routines
    • When to call for help
    • Devices: Central lines and ports
    • Pain management for treatment
    • Types of treatment
      • Surgery for cancer
      • Chemotherapy
      • Cryotherapy
      • Immunotherapy
      • Radiotherapy
      • Stem cell transplant
      • Targeted therapy
    • Side effects
      • Low blood counts
      • Fatigue, nausea and vomiting
      • Weight gain and loss
      • Mouth care
      • Hair loss
      • Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN)
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      • Shingles and chickenpox
    • Fertility preservation
      • Fertility preservation options for boys
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    • Clinical trials
      • How clinical trials are run
      • Road map
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  • Cancer handbook: After treatment
    • Cancer and relapse
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  • Services at Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick
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    • School and education support for cancer patients
  • Cancer handbook: Support and resources
    • Travel and accommodation
    • Financial assistance
    • Cancer organisations
    • Carer support and programs
    • Palliative care
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Last updated Friday 14 March 2025

Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network acknowledges that our facilities are built on the lands of the Bidjigal, Cammeraygal, Burramattagal, Cabrogal, Wangal, and Woddi Woddi. Our services extend across the lands now known as New South Wales. 

Aboriginal people believe these lands hold the ancestral spirits of those who have come and gone before them.

We acknowledge this is, was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.

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