What is post-operative outpatient chemotherapy for rectal cancer?

In the era of cancer, the talk of chemotherapy is a common fear. Chemotherapy is like a wolf and a tiger, torturing patients to eat and drink unpredictably and weakening their bodies. Every time they come to the hospital for chemotherapy, they will be sad and miserable, and they will be happy to leave the hospital one day earlier. However, as an important way to treat tumors, chemotherapy has to be carried out. At Friendship Hospital, some patients can go home after chemotherapy in the day ward, and they do not need to stay in the inpatient unit. Patients can go home in the afternoon after chemotherapy drug infusion in the same morning in the day ward. Why can chemotherapy be administered without hospitalization? Which patients can have chemotherapy in the Day Unit? The day ward chemotherapy at Friendship Hospital is for patients who have post-operative adjuvant chemotherapy. Patients who are assessed to be in good physical condition through routine blood tests, biochemistry and electrocardiogram can take day ward chemotherapy. This part of patients do not need to use intravenous chemotherapy pump because the chemotherapy pump infusion time is longer and the clinic time does not allow it. The day before, patients will have their lab tests done in the outpatient clinic, and the next day they will have chemotherapy directly in the day ward, and they will be able to go home after the chemotherapy is finished around the afternoon. Day case chemotherapy at Friendship Hospital is not outpatient chemotherapy in the traditional sense. This type of chemotherapy saves patients’ hospital time and reduces the hassle of waiting in line for a bed, which is practical for patients in good post-operative condition.