Treatment of Nose Cancer

How is Nose Cancer Treated?

If nose cancer is diagnosed early, it is likely that treatment can be carried out to remove the tumour and treat any other effects successfully. However if the cancer has chance to develop or spread, any treatment has be balanced against the potential risks and possible side-effects that may occur due to the treatment.

Surgery

For early stage cancer that has not spread, simple surgery can sometimes remove the tumour and the patient can go home on the same day, essentially fixed, although ongoing monitoring to ensure it does not recur is advisable. Depending on the location of the tumour, some surgery might be carried out using key-hole techniques whereas in other cases it may require open surgery.

If the cancer is located in a more difficult to reach part of the body, then the surgery may be more complex and can involve a large medical team and in many cases quite a long recovery period, but still the result can be similarly successful.

Radiotherapy

Radiotherapy involves the use of very high energy radiation which is carefully targeted at the tumour itself. This can be used to kill the cancerous cells that make up the tumour, to reduce the size of a tumour before surgery, or even to destroy any remaining pieces of a tumour that may remain after surgery. The radiation used in radiotherapy can itself cause issues and so the treatment is not always the first option as the risks must be balanced with the potential benefits to the patient. Radiotherapy can be delivered externally; using a machine to send radiation toward the cancer, or internally; by use of a needle, seed, wire or catheter that is placed directly into or near the tumour itself.

Chemotherapy 

Chemotherapy uses drugs to shrink a tumour, or to slow down its growth. It is also used after surgery in order to reduce the risk of the cancer returning, however the treatment itself comes with a range of potential dangers. While the medicine is intended to destroy the cancer cells, it also harms other, healthy cells within the body, sometimes giving had body a harder time than the cancer itself. 

Chemotherapy can some times be taken by mouth or injected into a vein or muscle, where as in other cases it might be delivered directly into the area in which the tumour is located.

Clinical Trials

Because cancer is such a danger to so many people there are often a range clinical trials of new treatments that are not yet available through the health service or in usual medical practice. These trials test new approaches to treatment and while many are not successful, it is only because of these trials that we understand the ways to treat cancer and other diseases at all.

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