Some treatments may be added, to help ease the side effects you may experience, but they may not be able to be altered too much, to avoid interruption of treatment effectiveness.

As part of the treatment plan, side effects are measured and recorded, to make sure our patients continue to be taken care of. The consequence of damaging healthy tissue and affecting other organs not touched by cancer, is a complication, or side effect, of treatment. Unfortunately, the delivery of cancer therapy, like chemotherapy, often affects the body’s normal organs and healthy tissues. Your treatment plan will depend on the specific characteristics of the blood disorder you have been diagnosed with, and what path your doctor has discussed with you. Hematology treatment for blood disease may involve medications, blood transfusions, immunotherapy, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or a bone marrow transplant. These therapies are used to release radioactive substances into small areas of the body to avoid damaging normal tissue not affected by cancer. The two main types of radiation therapy are external beam therapy and internal radiation therapy. Radiation oncology is a specialty dedicated to the treatment of cancer through radiation, or in combination with surgery and/or chemotherapy. Infusions are treatments given through the veins with a solution created by medical specialists. Our medical oncologists treat all types of cancers, such as tumors and blood cancers, with the most innovative treatments available, including infusions. Medical oncology is the treatment of cancer with medicine such as chemotherapy, biotherapy, immunotherapy, and hormones. 180 Cox Creek Parkway South, Suite B | Florence, AL 35630 (click to open in Google maps)ġ751 Veterans Drive, Suite 190, Florence, AL 35630 (click to open in Google maps)ġ01 Blake Drive, Muscle Shoals, AL 35661 (click to open in Google maps)Ĭlearview Cancer Institute has three Shoals location to serve patients in Florence, Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia, Sheffield and north Alabama.

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