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Radiotherapy

Radiotherapy is a common from of cancer treatment. Radiotherapy uses high energy, ionising radiation, known as radioactivity. Along with surgery, radiotherapy is another important form of treatment of localised cancer.

Hormone therapy

In some cancers, cancer cells exploit the body’s hormones to grow. Hormonal cancer therapy works by preventing this activity. Hormone therapy for cancer therefore seeks to prevent production and effects of hormones that are vital for the cancer in question.

Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy or immunological cancer therapy is a group of different treatment methods that aim to destroy cancer cells by influencing your body’s defence system in different ways.

Cancer treatments

Cancer treatments are being continually developed. Increasingly more effective and better-targeted treatments are available. As treatment has developed, the outcomes have improved. Treatment outcomes in Finland are outstanding by international comparisons.

Cancer patients’ income and tax

Having cancer can affect many things to do with your income. Reimbursements and allowances depend on the patient’s life situation.

Problems related to eating

Syöpää sairastavalla voi olla ongelmia syömisessä, ja hän saattaa laihtua.

How to go on?

For more and more people, cancer can be cured or at least controlled so that you can live a near-normal life. The end of treatment can feel both relieving and frightening at the same time.

Treating cancer pain

Treatment for cancer pain always aims to get rid of the cause of the pain, if possible. If a tumour cannot be removed, radiotherapy or chemotherapy can often shrink it.

Cancer pain

Cancer and its treatments can cause many different types of pain. Cancer pain is the most common and most important symptom associated with cancer regarding quality of life. Around half of people with cancer experience pain.

Differentiation and staging of cancer

Cancer has a number of different stages. Following exposure to the factor that causes cancer it usually takes a long time before the cancer begins to develop.

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Cancer Society of Finland

Cancer organizations maintain several sites intended for different target groups

National patient organizations

Reactions are part of adaptation

Having cancer can affect your sexuality in many ways

How should you tell them at work that you have cancer?

It is best not to delay applying for benefits, as many may have deadlines

When you have cancer, exercise is important in terms of your wellbeing and recovery

Cancer affects a person’s diet and eating habits in many ways

There is no completely clear-cut definition of cancer

Cancer treatments are being continually developed

The situation of each cancer patient is unique

Cancer is not inherited

Health services must be available equitably

Living with chronic cancer

The illness affects the quality of both your lives

The death of a loved one and the ensuing grief is a long process with many stages

Once your treatments are over, your recovery from cancer is often just beginning

How to make going back to work succeed?

Follow-up is needed to detect adverse effects of treatment and recurrence of the cancer

Do you want to discuss cancer or its treatment?

Peer support often makes things easier for patients and their loved ones

Courses are organised mainly in Finnish

Are you wondering about rehabilitation?

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Cancer magazine Pohjois-Savo