Side effects of prostate cancer chemotherapy are not the key to efficacy

Cancer chemotherapy is an effective way to control the disease, but prostate cancer chemotherapy also has obvious toxic side effects on the patient's health. Many people think that the greater the side effects of prostate cancer chemotherapy , the more obvious the treatment effect. This understanding is wrong. Although the effect of chemotherapy is indirectly reflected in the side effects of prostate chemotherapy, this is caused by the combined effect of many factors and cannot be used as a basis.

Among the chemotherapy drugs for prostate cancer, some drugs such as nitrogen mustard, cyclophosphamide, and doxorubicin will have better efficacy as the dosage increases, and it is also possible to overcome the drug resistance of malignant cells to a certain extent. Of course, as the dosage of chemotherapy drugs increases, the adverse reactions will also increase. From this point of view, it seems to make sense that the greater the adverse reactions, the better the chemotherapy effect.

However, when the dosage of some prostate cancer chemotherapy drugs exceeds a certain range, the efficacy does not increase, and the toxicity increases significantly. In addition, with the advancement of adjuvant chemotherapy, the problems caused by drug side effects have been solved as much as possible. For example, the peripheral blood leukopenia caused by chemotherapy drugs can be treated with granulocyte colony stimulating factor after the application of chemotherapy drugs. The side effect of leukopenia is not obvious, and the dosage of chemotherapy drugs can be increased to improve the efficacy. For example, high-dose cisplatin chemotherapy uses antiemetic drugs such as zotocin, so the side effect of vomiting is not strong, and the efficacy is significantly improved compared with low-dose cisplatin.

The efficacy of chemotherapy for prostate cancer should be determined by the specific drugs, the specific chemotherapy method, whether auxiliary drugs are used in combination, etc. It is not entirely correct to simply say that the greater the adverse reactions of chemotherapy for prostate cancer, the better the efficacy.

I hope that readers can correct their misunderstanding of prostate cancer chemotherapy and gain a deeper understanding of prostate cancer chemotherapy by reading this article. I also hope that patients can choose the appropriate treatment method by understanding their own health status to better protect their health.

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