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Skin Cancer
Treatments and Research - Treating Skin Cancer
These standard cancer treatments work in different ways.
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Surgery removes the cancer.
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Chemotherapy uses anti-cancer drugs to kill cancer cells or stop
their growth.
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Radiation therapy uses high-energy beams to kill cancer cells and
shrink tumors.
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Photodynamic therapy uses a drug and a type of laser to kill cancer
cells.
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Immunotherapy, which is newer, uses the patient's immune system to
fight cancer.
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