Metronomic Chemotherapy
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We typically use metronomic chemotherapy for patients who cannot tolerate full dosages of chemotherapy. In this method, we deliver a single chemotherapy dose in smaller doses over a period of a few days.
Metronomic chemotherapy is helpful for cancer patients who feel weak or have low blood counts, because the impact on the body is less severe. Delivering chemotherapy in smaller doses rather than one large, single dose may help to reduce common chemotherapy-related side effects, such as nausea and vomiting.
In addition, cancer cells are always dividing and are most sensitive to chemotherapy drugs during division. Metronomic chemotherapy offers the added benefit of prolonging levels of chemotherapy drugs in the blood, so the drugs can better target susceptible cancer cells.
Chemotherapy
- Chemoembolization
- Chemotherapy Resistance Testing (see Tumor Molecular Profiling)
- Chronotherapy
- Extreme Drug Resistance (see Tumor Molecular Profiling)
- Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC)
- Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy (IAC)
- Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy
- Intrathecal Chemotherapy
- Intratumoral Chemotherapy
- Metronomic Chemotherapy
