Treatment

Stress can take a toll on your physical and mental well-being. It’s important to use stress management techniques like mindfulness, meditation, exercise and relaxation to reduce the effects of stress on your body. If you feel anxious or overwhelmed by stress, a therapist or healthcare provider can help.

If you have liver cancer, your treatment may include chemoembolization instead of surgery. This procedure involves injecting a combination of cancer-fighting drugs and an embolic agent into the tumor. Treatment cuts off the tumor’s blood supply with little or no effect on liver functioning.

Tympanoplasty is surgery to treat ruptured eardrums. If you have a ruptured eardrum, you have a hole in your eardrum that affects your ability to hear. Your healthcare provider may treat your ruptured eardrum with ear drops or antibiotics. If your eardrum doesn’t heal, your provider may perform tympanoplasty, accessing your eardrum and patching the hole.

Vaccines help prevent illness from viruses and bacteria. They train your body to fight harmful invaders by causing an immune response. They work by using live or dead pathogens, part of a pathogen or mRNA. Vaccines go through an extensive series of safety testing before being released to the public. Versions of vaccines have been used for centuries.

Palliative care aims to enhance quality of life and allow people to maintain their independence

Testing the effectiveness of particular medicines and treatments.

During your cancer journey you may hear about, or become interested in, complementary therapies. There are many therapies on offer and information about these can be confusing. The information below will help you to make informed and safe choices.

Surgery is one of the main treatments for cancer. It may be used by itself or with other cancer treatments.It's natural to feel nervous before surgery. Knowing what to expect, how to plan for surgery and the recovery process can help.

While chemotherapy works to kill cancer cells, immunotherapy aims to boost the body's own immune system to fight cancer. Checkpoint immunotherapy is currently available in Australia for some types of cancer.

Some cancers grow in response to particular hormones. These cancers are known as hormone-dependent cancers. They include some types of breast, uterine and prostate cancers. The aim of hormone therapy is the slow or stop the growth of hormone receptor positive cells.