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Treatment Options

Chemotherapy Dose

The importance of Chemotherapy Dose
Chemotherapy refers to the treatment of cancer and other disease with chemicals that kill cells. Most chemotherapy drugs can’t differentiate between healthy and malignant cells. Because these drugs are toxic, it is very important to calculate each chemotherapy dose given to a patient carefully.
Further complicating giving a chemotherapy dose is complex [...]

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FOLFOX Chemotherapy

FOLFOX is a term for a chemotherapy regimen that incorporates folinic acid (FOL) fluorouracil (F) and Oxalipatin (OX).  Chemotherapy is used to destroy rapidly dividing cells in the body.  FOLFOX chemotherapy treatments are used in treating cancer of the bowel.
Flourouracil or 5-FU belongs to a family of drugs called antimetabolities often used to treat cancer.  [...]

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Chemotherapy Port

What is Chemotherapy Port
A chemotherapy port is a relatively simple and painless way to deliver chemotherapy drugs into the body. Chemotherapy is a medical treatment for cancer, which can have many harsh side effects. A chemotherapy port can be a more comfortable way of administering chemotherapy and also prove safer for the patient’s overall [...]

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5FU

5-FU is a medication used to treat various forms of cancer. The name comes from 5-fluoro-1H-pyrimidine-2,4 dione. Also known as Fluorouracil this chemotherapy agent had been used in the battle against cancer for more than 40 years. It acts in multiple ways, but its function is to slow down or inhibit rapid cell division thus [...]

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Types of chemotherapy drugs

There are many types of chemotherapy drugs out there that work to combat against cancer.  Doctors have classified chemotherapy drugs into many different groups based on features like how they work in combination with one and another, their chemical makeup and how they treat cancer.
Alkylating agents
Alkylating agents are common type of chemotherapy drugs that target [...]

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Common chemotherapy medications

Because there are many different types of drugs to treat cancer each type is grouped by what they are, what they may be combined with, and other grouping processes.  One such way to group some of these types of chemotherapy drugs is on how they work.
This is because many of them work in more than [...]

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Chemotherapy Drugs and Dosage

Are you or someone you know living with cancer?  Although you feel like there is nothing you can do to help the situation at times, just getting informed about such things as treatments and medications can be a great help.  Here is a bit of information about chemotherapy drugs.
Each chemotherapy drug out there today has [...]

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