When used to treat cancer, surgery is a procedure in which a surgeon removes cancer from your body.

Radiation therapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors.

Chemotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses drugs to kill cancer cells.

Targeted therapy is a type of cancer treatment that targets the changes in cancer cells that help them grow, divide, and spread.

Stem cell transplants are procedures that restore blood-forming stem cells in cancer patients who have had theirs destroyed by very high doses of chemotherapy or radiation therapy.

Hormone therapy is a treatment that slows or stops the growth of breast and prostate cancers that use hormones to grow.

Precision medicine helps doctors select treatments that are most likely to help patients based on a genetic understanding of their disease.