Treatment Options

At Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, your cancer care team has access to all the current treatment options available and new therapies available only in clinical trials. This is one advantage of seeking treatment at SCCA.

Your health-care team will recommend treatment based primarily on the location and stage of your cancer. The “stage” is determined by whether or not your cancer has spread from its original site and how far it has spread. Your treatment is also determined by the tumor’s location and size, and your overall health. Ideally, you and your team will choose the best course of treatment together.

Making treatment choices together
The treatment choices you may be offered at SCCA fall into three basic categories:
• Colon Cancer Surgery
• Rectal Cancer Surgery
• Chemotherapy
• Radiation therapy
• Follow-up After Treatment

Working as a group, your team will come up with a joint treatment decision based on your individual factors and how different treatment modalities (types) can be used together.