home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ Corel Medical Series: Cancer / Corel Medical Series: Cancer.iso / mac / Program / Glossary.dxr / 00709_Field_GLO.Combined modality therapy.txt < prev    next >
Text File  |  1997-02-06  |  329b  |  4 lines

  1. COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY 
  2.  
  3. Treatment with two or more types of therapy‚Äîsurgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and biological therapy. These may be used at the same time or one after the other. Surgery, for example, is often followed by chemotherapy to destroy random cancer cells that may have spread from the original site. 
  4.