Cancer treatments
There are a variety of ways to treat or manage cancer. These options will be discussed with you by your cancer team.
Cancer treatments
There are a variety of ways to treat or manage cancer. These options will be discussed with you by your cancer team.
Treatments can be given as a single treatment or a combination of treatments. Treatment options are:
- Surgery
- Radiotherapy
- Chemotherapy
- Hormone therapies
- Targeted therapies/immunotherapy
- Supportive and palliative care
If your treatment is to be offered at the Leeds Cancer Centre, you can find more information on the Leeds Teaching Hospitals website.
Surgery
This may be done in any of the three Mid Yorkshire hospitals, however depending on the type of cancer it may be only offered in specialist centres. Your cancer team will discuss with you where your surgery will be delivered.
Find out more on the Macmillan website.
Radiotherapy
This treatment is delivered by a clinical oncologist. This is only available at the Cancer Centre in Leeds. The type and duration of this treatment is dependent on the cancer site and type.
Find out more on the Macmillan website.
Chemotherapy, immunotherapy, targeted therapies, hormone therapies
These treatments are delivered by a medical oncologist. You may receive this treatment in any of the three Mid Yorkshire hospitals or in another hospital trust, depending on the cancer type. Your cancer team will discuss with you where this will be delivered.
Find out more on the Macmillan website:
Hormone therapies may also, in some cases, be managed by other healthcare professionals.
Pre-treatment information
The Mid Yorkshire Cancer Team have produced a short 15 minute pre-treatment information video for patients about to start cancer treatment with a medical oncologist.
You can view the video below.
Video transcript: Cancer Services pre-treatment patient information video.docx[docx] 16KB
Supportive and palliative care
This is usually offered to people with advanced cancers, which usually means it is not possible to cure. Some people can have advanced cancer when they are first diagnosed and for others the cancer may have spread or come back after a period of time. Sometimes treatment may not be able to control the cancer or the individual may not be well enough to have treatment.
You will be offered treatments to manage symptoms.
You may be referred to a specialist team called the palliative care team who specialise in controlling cancer symptoms.
Find out more on the Macmillan website.