What are the common drugs for lung cancer chemotherapy?

Chemotherapy is also one of the important methods of lung cancer treatment, which has good therapeutic effect on some poorly differentiated lung cancers, especially small cell lung cancer. Because the effect of chemotherapy can spread all over the body, clinically it can be used alone in the treatment of advanced lung cancer patients, which can effectively relieve the symptoms, and it can also be combined with surgical treatment and radiotherapy to prevent metastasis and recurrence of the cancer foci and improve the cure rate.

The chemotherapeutic drugs commonly used in the treatment of lung cancer include cyclophosphamide, fluorouracil, mitomycin, adriamycin, epothilone, procarbazide, vincristine, methotrexate, lomustine, cisplatin, carboplatin, paclitaxel, gemcitabine, etc. In the clinical application, the drugs should be selected reasonably according to the pathologic and histological typing of the lung cancer and the systemic conditions of the patients, and the method of administration should be selected according to the pure chemotherapy or adjuvant chemotherapy. In order to improve the effect of chemotherapy, it is necessary to decide the length of treatment course and which kinds of drugs should be applied jointly and given intermittently.

It should be noted that at present, the efficacy of chemotherapy in lung cancer treatment is still very low, the symptomatic remission period is shorter, and the side effects are more. When clinically applied, the performance and dosage of drugs should be mastered and side effects should be closely observed. Once bone marrow hematopoietic function inhibition, immune function inhibition, secondary infection, severe gastrointestinal reaction, etc. occur, it is necessary to timely adjust the drug dose or suspend the administration of the drug, and give the corresponding treatment.