Chemotherapy for Skin Cancer

Chemotherapy is the treatment of cancer with drugs that can destroy skin cancer cells by impeding their growth and reproduction. These drugs often are called "anticancer" drugs. Chemotherapy drugs are given intravenously, by injection or by mouth. Chemotherapy is often used alone, or in conjunction with radiation therapy or surgery.

Chemotherapy can have many unpleasant side effects, such as nausea, vomiting, hair loss and mouth sores. New approaches to reduce or moderate these side effects will be utilized to help you through your chemotherapy treatment. The fractionated dose approach may diminish the side effects, particularly nausea and vomiting.

In addition to offering many standard chemotherapy protocols, your care team at Cancer Treatment Centers of America will continually revise our chemotherapy protocols to reflect new treatments.