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Fighting Pharyngeal Cancer at CTCA
At Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA), we use many tools to help you fight pharyngeal cancer on all fronts. Our cancer experts provide a powerful combination of traditional and new, innovative therapies. They work with you to develop a treatment plan that is tailored to your individual needs.
Your personalized pharyngeal cancer treatment plan may include the following:
- Surgery is often used to treat pharyngeal cancer. There are several types of surgery used. Some involve removing the cancer and others involve improving function. Surgery may help prevent future complications, such as blockage or bleeding.
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is an advanced form of conformal radiotherapy. IMRT utilizes a high-tech computer program that allows radiation oncologists and medical physicists to plan a precise dose of radiation in three dimensions, based on individual tumor size, shape and location. Remarkably, it allows for higher radiation doses than traditional radiotherapy methods, while sparing more of the surrounding healthy tissue.
- High-Dose Radiation (HDR) Brachytherapy (internal radiotherapy) may be used to treat pharyngeal cancer. This method of precisely delivering radiation from the inside out spares surrounding healthy tissue and organs. It also may reduce the need for surgery.
- Fractionated-Dose Chemotherapy divides a powerful dose of drugs into incremental doses, given over several days. This approach exposes cancer cells to the drugs for a longer period of time, while also seeking to reduce the unpleasant side effects often experienced with larger doses of chemotherapy.
In addition to the therapies described above, CTCA enriches your treatment by offering complementary medicine therapies, including naturopathic medicine, nutrition therapy, mind-body medicine, image enhancement and spiritual support. These therapies help to reduce side effects and improve your overall quality of life during and after treatment.
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