Bone Cancer Treatments – Chemotherapy for Bone Cancer

Chemotherapy for Bone Cancer

Chemotherapy is one of the bone cancer treatment options available at Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA). Your CTCA care team uses chemotherapy to destroy bone cancer cells by impeding their growth and reproduction.

Chemotherapy drugs are often referred to as “anticancer” drugs. Chemotherapy drugs can be administered by mouth, intravenously, or by injection. Chemotherapy is often used alone, or in conjunction with other common primary bone cancer treatments such as surgery and/or radiation therapy.

Chemotherapy patients may experience unpleasant side effects, including nausea, vomiting, hair loss, and mouth sores. In addition to offering many standard chemotherapy protocols, your CTCA care team uses new approaches, such as fractionated dose chemotherapy, which may help reduce or moderate the side effects of traditional chemotherapy.

In addition, throughout your bone cancer treatment, your care team will provide various complementary and alternative medicine therapies to help alleviate side effects and improve your quality of life.

The cancer experts at CTCA continually revise our chemotherapy protocols to reflect new therapies that may help reduce side effects. Here, we strive to help you fight bone cancer on all fronts.

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