Surgery remains the corner stone treatment in cancer. It not only helps in complete extirpation of cancer but also provides comprehensive staging information. Surgery can be done either by conventional open techniques or it can be done via minimally invasive technique also known as the key hole surgery.

Radiotherapy is treatment given by modified X-ray like beams. With the advent of LINAC (newer version machine for radiotherapy) and techniques like IMRT, IGRT and VMAT one can give highly precise therapy to tumor with negligible damage to surrounding structures.

Chemotherapy entails infusion of specific drugs given intravenously to kill cancer cells. Different tumor requires different drug regimen. It can be given either pre-operatively to down size the tumor or given post-operatively to deal with micro-metastatic tumor.

In very advanced cancer and also in cases where cancer have spread to different sites of body one can offer palliative care. The intention is to treat the symptoms arising from cancer and aim at improving quality of life. It may require some form of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery just enough to reduce the pain and other symptoms.