Folfox is a combination chemotherapy regimen that can be used to treat patients with colon cancer, says the National Cancer Institute. The drugs included in this combination are folinic acid or leucovorin, fluorouracil and oxaliplatin. Folinic...
Chemotherapy is often used as a treatment for colorectal cancer, and treatment regimens typically consist of a combination of drugs in order to be more effective. FOLFOX is one regimen for advanced colorectal cancer, and consists of the drugs...
The National Cancer Institute reports that prior to the year 2000, 5-fluorouracil was the only drug available for use in adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with colon cancer that had spread to the lymph nodes, called stage III colon cancer. (See...
According to the Mayo Clinic, chemotherapy is a method that uses potent chemicals to destroy cancer cells of many different types of cancer. The chemotherapy drugs a doctor uses for a particular cancer patient depend on the type and stage of the...
According to the American Cancer Society, chemotherapy regimens may consist of a single drug or a combination of drugs. In most cases, however, oncologists will suggest a combination of drugs because this type of treatment is more effective than...
Colon cancer, also known as colorectal cancer, is cancer that originates in the colon. The colon makes up the majority of the large intestine and helps the body absorb salt and water from food as well as store waste. Once colon cancer is...
Colon cancer is malignant growths that form in the colon, or large intestine, according to the American Cancer Society. Colon and rectal cancer are often grouped together as colorectal cancer, and either cancer can be referred to with this term....
Chemotherapy is normally used in combination with surgery and/or radiation for the treatment of colon cancer. Chemotherapy usually follows surgery as a part of an overall treatment plan to extend colon cancer survival. If found and treated in...
Chemotherapy is the use of medications to kill cancer cells. It is often used in the treatment of colon cancer, and doctors typically use more than one drug at a time, because treatment is more effective in this way. Each chemotherapy drug has...
According to the American Cancer Society, there are more than one million survivors of colorectal cancer in the U.S. and the death rate from this third leading cause of cancer deaths continues to fall. This good news, says the ACS, is due to...
The most common sites of metastasis for rectal cancer include the liver, lung and ovaries, says the National Cancer Institute. Rectal cancer that has metastasized to other organs, such as the liver, is classified as stage IV rectal cancer and is...
Rectal cancer may also be referred to as colorectal cancer, which encompasses colon and rectal cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. The rectum is the last six inches of the digestive system where stool is held until it is excreted,...
