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Chemotherapy may be able to cure breast cancer. If a cure isn't possible, chemotherapy may help keep the cancer from growing or spreading. Or it may help ease symptoms caused by cancer and improve your quality of life.

Cancer treatment 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.

Being told you have lung cancer can be scary, and you may have many questions. But you have people on your healthcare team to help.

Chemotherapy (chemo) uses anticancer medicines to kill cancer cells. Learn how this type of treatment is used for bladder cancer.

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.

Chemotherapy is a treatment that uses medicines to destroy cancer cells. It's an important part of treatment for most people with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Here's what you need to know.

Your doctor may suggest immunotherapy if you have advanced melanoma.

Radiation therapy is not a common treatment for melanoma, but it can be helpful in some cases. It may be used on its own or along with other types of treatment.

In many cases, early-stage prostate cancer will not spread or cause any problems or side effects for a long time, if ever. That's why your doctor may suggest active surveillance. This means that you and your doctor decide to watch prostate cancer closely, instead of treating it right away.