Which chemotherapy drug is most effective for colorectal cancer

For patients with weak body due to colorectal cancer who need chemotherapy, they can choose the chemotherapy drugs oxaliplatin plus capecitabine. However, oxaliplatin and capecitabine are chemotherapy drugs after all, and they still have certain toxic side effects, which can also cause harm to the weak body.

There are many chemotherapy drugs for colorectal cancer, up to hundreds of them. Commonly used drugs include the following categories:

(1) Antimetabolites: fluorouracil, furanfluorouracil, fluoropyrimidine carbamate, etc.;

(2) Herbal medicines: Camptothecin, hydroxycamptothecin, irinotecan, etc.

(3) Alkylating agents: carmustine, lomustine, semustine, etc.;

(4) Platinum: cisplatin, carboplatin, etc.;

(5) Antitumor antibiotics: mitomycin C, etc.

Chemotherapy is one of the three most important treatment measures for colorectal cancer, along with surgery and radiotherapy. It is often used before colorectal cancer surgery, for patients who cannot be cured by surgery, for patients who have relapsed after surgery and cannot undergo further surgery. It can also be used for consolidation therapy after radiotherapy or for patients who have relapsed and metastasized after surgery and radiotherapy. It can improve the survival of colorectal cancer patients.

Improving the patient's physical condition is the fundamental solution. It is recommended that patients can adopt a comprehensive treatment method combined with traditional Chinese medicine, such as taking ginsenoside Rh2, Cordyceps sinensis, etc., which can enhance the body's tolerance, reduce the side effects of chemotherapy drugs, and improve the effect. The ginseng essence extract ginsenoside Rh2 (life-protecting element) with a content of about 16% can improve the patient's physical fitness and improve immunity, achieving the effect of treating cancer. During chemotherapy and radiotherapy, while killing cancer cells, it will also kill normal cells indiscriminately, causing the body's immunity to decline and a series of side effects to occur. As an auxiliary treatment method, you can take some good Chinese medicine according to your own situation. On the one hand, it can reduce the harm caused to patients by the toxic and side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and on the other hand, it can enhance the treatment effect, increase white blood cells, prevent recurrence and metastasis, and improve the quality of life.