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GREEN CHEMOTHERAPY

Chemotherapy is a milestone in cancer treatments. It applies chemo drugs to kill tumor cells, suppresses the growth & proliferation of cancer cells, and improves the differentiation of cancer cells. Chemotherapy is currently considered as a main therapy for cancer; however, because of the reason that conventional chemotherapy can result in decreased immunity and normal tissue cells damage. Patients are more and more desired to have a therapy that may not do great damage or has severe side effects to the body.

Thus, Modern Cancer Hospital Guangzhou modified conventional chemotherapy with means, minimizing its side effects while maximizing the efficacy, which is believed to be a new chemical weapon to treat malignant tumor. With the advantages of reduce side effects greatly, those chemotherapies applied in the hospital are considered as green chemotherapies.

Types of chemo drugs

Currently, there are about 100 chemo drugs used to treat cancer. The majority of them can be divided into alkylating agents, antimetabolites, antitumor agents, antibiotics, plant alkaloids, hormones and immune inhibitor.

What are the advantages of green chemotherapy?

  1. Increase therapeutic effects, shrink the tumor till it disappears;
  2. Control the growth and metastases of tumor ;
  3. Palliate symptoms and improve quality of life;
  4. Prolong patient’s life expectancy.

Treatment schemes

Single chemotherapy or combined chemotherapy
Single chemotherapy is given alone while combined chemotherapy is given with other therapies to enhance therapeutic effects.

Route of administration
Orally administration; External application;Injection (including intravenous injection, intramuscular injection, subcutaneous injection, intra-arterial injection, pleural injection, peritoneal injection, block injection)