Cancer Treatment

Learning that you have cancer is never an easy diagnosis to accept. After emerging from the shock of the situation, the first step you and your family should take is to decide upon a treatment path that will best tackle the problem and with which you are comfortable. Your physician should provide you with information regarding all the options available to you; failure to do so is considered to be professional negligence, or medical malpractice.

Your Options

In general, there are three main options available to patients who have been diagnosed with cancer (sometimes, more than one is used on a patient):

• Surgery: surgical removal of a malignant tumor from the body; can be used in non-hematological situations and with cancers that have not metastasized to other areas of the body
• Chemotherapy: the use of cancer-killing drugs to rid the body of these dangerous cells
• Radiation: using iodizing radiation to kill dangerous cancer cells

In some situations, such as in the case of a brain tumor, not all three options are safe or worth the risks they pose. Sometimes, only one or two may be feasible with certain patients. Alternative treatments such as bone marrow transplants, stem cell transplants, and immunotherapy are available, as well.

Contact Us

If you would like to learn more about the treatment options available to those with cancer, contact the Washington medical malpractice lawyers of Fuller & Fuller today at 800-570-4878 to speak with an experienced attorney about your questions.