Life Support Booklet for Oncology Patients

Cancer is a disease that occurs as a result of impairment of the regular state of our body, which is managed by strict control mechanisms, and some organ or tissue cells going out of control for various reasons and becoming disordered.

Which Treatment Methods Are Used in Cancer Treatment?

Cancer treatment is like a team game that requires close cooperation between departments. In this team, which includes imaging, pathology, and biochemistry specialists and endoscopists at the diagnosis stage, the following three share the leading roles when it comes to the treatment stage:

• Surgeons who remove diseased tissues from the body with surgical interventions and specialist physicians who perform interventional treatments,
• Medical oncologists who destroy cancer cells with drugs from a wide variety of classes or administer immune-enhancing drugs,
• Radiation oncologists destroy diseased tissues with radioactive rays.

The above-mentioned treatments must be performed by physicians who are also specialized in those fields. Especially the number of medical oncologists who treat cancer with drugs is extremely insufficient in our country. If incompetent physicians perform these treatments, they can lead to irreparable results.