The Lunar New Year is coming, so it is quite inconvenient for cancer patients to go to the hospital for treatment if the chemotherapy schedule falls during the New Year. In recent years, oral chemotherapy drugs have been invented for cancer treatment, which has achieved good results in clinical medical research reports, so that cancer friends can also receive chemotherapy at home.

Oral chemotherapy has many benefits, and its curative effect is similar to that of injection

Xie Ruikun, chairman of Taiwan Province Cancer Holistic Care Foundation, said that traditional chemotherapy is a way of injection treatment. In recent years, there have been quite good oral chemotherapy, which has considerable benefits in the treatment of gastric cancer or pancreatic cancer. Early health insurance only paid chemotherapy drugs for injections. After TS-1 was included in health insurance, many doctors gradually used this oral drug to treat patients. Oral chemotherapy is similar to injection, but it still needs to be decided according to the patient's condition.

Oral chemotherapy is more convenient. There is no need to go to the hospital.

Open the medicine jar, pour out enough medicine and drink water to swallow it. Oral chemotherapy looks no different from taking medicine when you are sick, so many people will feel that oral chemotherapy is not like receiving chemotherapy.

Chairman Xie Ruikun further explained that oral chemotherapy is used every day, so the drugs needed for a course of treatment will be used up in an average of ten days; However, the chemotherapy of injection will inject the dosage for the next ten or twenty days in one day, so in terms of side effects, oral chemotherapy will be less. Because when minor side effects appear, patients will stop taking drugs after discovering them; However, once a course of medicine is injected into an injection, the side effects after treatment can only wait for it to slowly subside.

Chairman Xie once had a patient who ran a small business selling clothes and often needed to go to the hospital for chemotherapy and injections. After treatment, he needed to go back to work and be on duty quickly. In the later stage of treatment, because she can't take time off often, she is advised to accept the course of treatment by oral chemotherapy. The course of treatment lasted for several years, so the patient was able to keep his job and go to work normally, keep his income and take care of the treatment.

chemotherapy and quality of life: a new choice of oral chemotherapy

Clinical studies show that the use of oral chemotherapy drugs by cancer patients can not only reduce the psychological pressure of chemotherapy, but also have a better quality of life. Although some people worry that oral drugs will forget to take medicine, there are already many medical apps that can remind you to take medicine and record the situation of taking medicine. Therefore, the next time cancer friends receive treatment, they may wish to discuss with their doctors to choose the treatment method that suits them, so that there is less discomfort on the road to cancer.

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