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Radiation therapy can be used to treat Kaposi sarcoma lesions on the skin or in the mouth.

Immunotherapy (sometimes called biologic therapy) is a type of treatment that boosts your body's own immune system to help it recognize and attack cancer cells.

Having certain bile duct or liver diseases can make it more likely for you to develop bile duct cancer.

The stage of a cancer is how much and how far the cancer has spread in your body. Your doctor uses exams and tests to find out the size of the cancer and where it is.

Radiation therapy is also called radiotherapy. Its goal is to kill or shrink cancer cells.

Radiation therapy is a treatment for cancer that uses high-energy X-rays to kill cancer cells or stop them from growing. It's also called radiotherapy.

In rare cases, CML may be treated with surgery to remove a swollen spleen. This is called a splenectomy. Here's what you need to know.

Targeted therapy is often the first treatment used for CML. It is the use of medicines that act on parts of cancer cells that make them different from normal cells. The medicines can damage the cancer cells without affecting most normal, healthy cells. Read on to learn more about this treatment.

In photodynamic therapy (PDT), you receive a light-activated medicine that tends to collect in cancer cells. Later the cells are exposed to a special light. This changes the medicine into a new form that kills the cancer cells.