Oncology

There is a tremendous amount of research being conducted on all frontiers of oncology, ranging from cancer cell biology to Chemotherapy treatment regimens and optimal palliative care and Pain Relief. This makes oncology a continuously changing field.
Therapeutic trials often involve patients from many different hospitals in a particular region.
The three most common types of cancer treatment are

Treatment is aimed at removing the cancer cells or destroying them in the body with medicines or other agents.
The most common type of cancer women and men both can have is basal or squamous cell skin cancer.
Common cancer occurring on the skin tends not to be fatal, though some percentage of people with a basal or squamous cell cancer will at a later point develop melanomas. In considering how common a cancer is, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) leaves out the above two cancers

For men
The most common cancer is prostate cancer, with an incidence of .16%.
Second in line, and actually most deadly is lung cancer, occurring in .088% of each group of 100,000 men.
Cancer of the colon/rectum follows with an incidence of .0627%.
Cancer of the bladder affects .0369% of the general male population.
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma affects .0217%.

In women
The most common cancer is breast cancer, with a .1272% of occurrence in women of all age and racial groups.
Second is cancer of the lungs affecting .0532% of women.
Colon and rectal cancer is the third most common cancer, occurring in about .0458% of the female population.
Uterine cancer affects .0229% of women.
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma is the fifth most common cancer with an incidence rate of .0154%.
Ovarian cancer is estimated to affect .0134% of women, and melanoma will affect by .013%.
Cancer of the thyroid gland occurs in .0117% of the female population.
Cancer of miscellaneous cause is the ninth most common form of cancer with a .01% occurrence rate.
Leukemia is the tenth most common cancer in women, occurring in about .009% of women.