types of oncology treatment
Main article: Chemotherapy. Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with drugs (anticancer drugs) that can destroy cancer cells. In current usage, the term chemotherapy usually refers to cytotoxic drugs which affect rapidly dividing cells in general, in contrast with targeted therapy (see below).
Radiation therapy or radiotherapy, often abbreviated RT, RTx, or XRT, is therapy using ionizing radiation, generally as part of cancer treatment to control or kill malignant cells. Radiation therapy may be curative in a number of types of cancer if they are localized to one area of the body.