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If your healthcare provider thinks you might have urethral cancer, you will need certain exams and tests to be sure. Learn which tests you may have.

Chemotherapy (chemo) uses medicines to kill cancer cells. Learn how it works for urethral cancer.

Some risk factors, such as family history, may not be in your control. But others may be things you can change. Knowing the risk factors can help you make choices that might lower your risk.

After a diagnosis of head and neck cancer, you will likely have other tests. These tests help your healthcare providers learn more about your cancer.

Many of the symptoms of head and neck cancer can be caused by other health problems. But it's important to see your healthcare provider if you have these symptoms.

Treatment for cancer can cause many changes that may affect your sexuality. It can also change the physical or emotional closeness you share with another person. Different treatments can cause different physical and psychological changes that can affect how you feel, look, and function. These changes may be temporary, or they may last a long time.

Targeted therapy medicines attack specific proteins or cell functions that help cancer cells grow. Like chemotherapy, these medicines work throughout the body, but they work in different ways. This means they can sometimes be helpful even if chemotherapy isn’t working.

Targeted therapy uses medicines that target specific parts of cancer cells or nearby cells that would normally help the cancer grow and spread. Targeted medicines can sometimes be more helpful than standard chemotherapy (chemo) medicines.

Surgery is the most common way to treat melanoma. It might be the only treatment needed for early stage melanomas, and it's often part of the treatment for more advanced cancers.