How are drugs for advanced cervical cancer treated? How much do you know?

  Cervical cancer is a relatively well-known disease among women, and it is also one of the most prevalent malignancies among women. Cervical cancer progresses more slowly than other cancers, so this helps patients to be treated. However, although surgery is more effective in the treatment of cervical cancer, many patients are not suitable for surgery due to poor health and other factors. Then they should choose to take medication.  Drugs for cervical cancer treatment can be divided into chemotherapy drugs and Chinese medicine drugs. Drug therapy is mostly used in the treatment of late stage cervical cancer.  Chemotherapy drugs for cervical cancer Chemotherapy is a more important treatment for advanced cervical cancer. The commonly used chemotherapy drugs for cervical cancer include cisplatin, carboplatin, cyclophosphamide, mitomycin, etc. All these drugs have their own advantages and disadvantages, and it is difficult to evaluate which drug is the best drug for cervical cancer. For example, cisplatin has the advantages of broad anti-cancer spectrum and strong action, but it is easy to cause nephrotoxicity, while carboplatin has similar action mechanism with cisplatin, but its nephrotoxicity, gastrointestinal reaction, ototoxicity and neurotoxicity are lighter than cisplatin, while its bone marrow toxicity is heavier than cisplatin.  2.Chinese medicine drugs for cervical cancer The advantages of Chinese medicine for cervical cancer treatment are that it has certain inhibitory effect on tumor, has no side effects, can improve human immunity, reduce the toxicity of chemotherapy drugs, improve patients’ survival quality and prolong survival time. At present, there are many kinds of Chinese drugs for cervical cancer treatment, and their quality varies. When choosing suitable drugs for patients, one should pay attention to the indications of the drugs and learn more about the clinical application of the drugs.  The treatment of drugs should not be used indiscriminately, especially the side effects of western drugs are relatively large, so the decision should be made according to the patient’s specific condition and physique, while the application of traditional Chinese medicine is safer but the effect is more limited, so it is recommended to combine Chinese and western medicine for treatment.