Chemotherapy Tablets

Chemotherapy is the treatment that is commonly used worldwide for the treatment of cancer. Tablets chemotherapy are very effective in treating colorectal cancer the intravenous treatment. New research indicates that advanced cancer patients need to accept this treatment as other drugs intravenously run through.


Oral chemotherapy gives fewer side effects than drugs that have received intravenously. Patient receiving oral chemotherapy can have a better life than those who received the drug intravenously. However, drugs by intravenous 5-fluorouracil is the standard treatment used alone or in combination.

Chemotherapy gives side effects, if used as a treatment intravenously or orally. Capecitabine is a pill used to treat colorectal cancer, gives some side effects less. Capecitabine converts 5-FU after absorption to help minimize tumors. The collective results showed that patients taking Xeloda live longer with a mean of 23.1 months while those receiving IV chemotherapy live for an average of 22.5 months. Xeloda alone or in combination is very effective is used as IV5-FU / FA cross at various stages of colorectal cancer and other gastrointestinal cancers. Xeloda is the standard treatment for patients with RCC.

However, capecitabine is a great attraction for patients because of their correct use and fewer side effects. For this reason, patients prefer to take drugs 5-FU in pill form rather than intravenously. Cancer patients who take oral chemotherapy treatment are more sensitive to the side effects of chemotherapy and model, such as diarrhea, nausea, hair loss and ulcers of the digestive system. These side effects found much less in patients who take the pill.