Ovarian Cancer Treatment Options
From About.com
Ovarian cancer treatment usually involves surgery, chemotherapy or both. Learn how these are used together to increase your chances for cure. In addition, complementary options, including active nutrition management, may help you with treatment side effects and may even improve your chances of beating cancer. Learn how these options are part of today's complete integrative treatment plans.
- Asking The Right Questions and Decisions...Decisions...
- Surgery
- Chemotherapy
- Nutrition & Alternative Care
Asking The Right Questions and Decisions...Decisions...
An ovarian cancer diagnosis is shocking and knocks you off your path. That's normal. Take a deep breath, regroup and learn about the right questions to ask and how to make decisions that will affect your life.
Surgery
Standard treatment for ovarian cancer usually involves surgery first, followed by chemotherapy. Learn what types of surgery are available and why this combination with chemotherapy is particularly effective in ovarian cancer, even in advanced stage disease.
- Surgical Cytoreduction or Debulking
- Have I Been Adequately Staged?
- Does Surgery Cause Ovarian Cancer to Spread?
- Ovarian Cancer Surgery and Ostomy
Chemotherapy
Chemotherapy, when necessary, is usually the main treatment for ovarian cancer after surgery. Sometimes it might be given alone or before surgery. Learn when it is required, what types of are available, how the drugs are given, what their side effects are and how to minimize these unwanted effects while maximizing your chances of beating ovarian cancer.
Nutrition & Alternative Care
Herbals, supplements and nutrition can help in some cases, but can also be dangerous in other circumstances. Learn about the importance of timing and effective integration of these supportive options. Discover the important differences between alternative, complementary and integrative therapies.
- Herbals and Your Surgery
- Glycemic Index and Fighting Cancer
- Chemotherapy Nausea? Try Shiatsu Accupressure
- Supplements and Vitamins During Treatment
- AntiInflammatory Diet and Nutrition
Research
Curing ovarian cancer is in the future, perhaps the not-so-distant future. This will not happen without basic laboratory and clinical research to find the best answers. Learn about the concept of clinical research trials and when you should consider them.
- What Are Clinical Trials?
- What Are Biologicals and Targeted Therapy?
- Maintenance Therapy With Biologicals
- Ovarian Cancer Gene Therapy
Recurrence
At some point more than 50% of ovarian cancers recur. What then? Learn how recurrences are detected and what the treatment options are.
Unusual Situations and Types of Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian cancer is not one type and does not occur in one age range only. There are multiple ovarian cancer types. Discover these types and situations involving ovarian cancer.
