Question: what is the best treatment for cancer?

Adam Hargreaves answered on 12 Jun 2017:

Hi AnnabelJ,

I’m definitely not an expert on cancer, so I’m not sure I can give you a full answer, but I’ll try my best! From what I understand there’s hundreds of types of different cancers, all of which affect different types of cells found in the human body. Because of that I think the best treatment depends on the type of cancer it is. The ones I’m most familiar with are chemotherapy (using drugs to try and stop or kill cancer cells), radiotherapy (using radiation to kill cancer cells), or surgery to remove tumours (collections of cancer cells). I’m afraid that’s about as much as I know for sure, sorry I can’t give you any more detail!