1.What is daytime chemotherapy? Ambulatory chemotherapy refers to the way that cancer patients can receive chemotherapy easily by “hospitalization during the day and recuperation at home at night”, which is a very common international humanized medical service model. Patients can come to the “Daytime Chemotherapy Center” to receive chemotherapy according to the chemotherapy plan, and then go home to live a “normal life” and enjoy the warmth of home. This is the natural result of the transformation of the traditional medical model to the modern medical model of “medicine, psychology and society” in recent years. 2. What are the characteristics of daytime chemotherapy? It is a mutually beneficial arrangement for patients, society and hospitals. Chemotherapy patients can receive efficient treatment without staying in the ward for a long time; the hospital stay is shortened, costs are reduced, and they can go home to recuperate between chemotherapy sessions. The familiar and warm family environment is incomparable to the monotonous and boring ward, whether it improves patients’ quality of life or enhances their confidence in survival. On the other hand, the hospital also frees up valuable bed resources and nursing human resources, so that more patients can enjoy the much-needed medical services. 3.Why should we implement daytime chemotherapy? According to the basic requirements of standardized tumor treatment, tumor patients generally need to receive 4-6 cycles of chemotherapy, which takes at least 4-6 months. With the increasing incidence of tumor, the bed space in oncology departments of famous hospitals is generally tight, and many chemotherapy patients have to spend a long time waiting for a bed after coming here, which will easily delay the treatment and have a negative impact on the efficacy. Many foreign hospitals have used the new model of opening day wards to make the most reasonable use of limited bed resources. Daytime chemotherapy is very common in developed countries, for example, MD Andeson Cancer Center in the United States has only 400 beds, but its patients are more than all hospitals in Jiangsu combined, mainly because of the mature daytime chemotherapy model. 4.Why can daytime chemotherapy be performed? Due to the adoption of advanced PICC catheter technology and the widespread use of portable infusion pumps, as well as the continuous improvement of chemotherapy drugs and the decreasing side effects of chemotherapy, most patients no longer need to be hospitalized for chemotherapy as in the past. 5.Will daytime chemotherapy affect the quality of treatment? Daytime chemotherapy is provided by specialists and nurses with many years of experience in cancer treatment, and the quality of treatment can be fully guaranteed by regular consultation and discussion by the attending doctors and regular check-ups by the director. Since the implementation of daytime chemotherapy, no patient has experienced serious adverse reactions. 6.What is the medical cost of ambulatory chemotherapy? Ambulatory chemotherapy saves 1/4~1/5 of the cost than inpatient chemotherapy. Because, in addition to the cost of drugs, patients have to pay for the bed, nursing, treatment, food, examination and other expenses when they are hospitalized for chemotherapy, while they only have to pay for drugs, treatment and relevant examination fees when they choose daytime chemotherapy. 7.Can ambulatory chemotherapy be reimbursed by medical insurance? Daytime chemotherapy is the same as inpatient chemotherapy, and the chemotherapy drugs routinely used for the relevant diseases are all covered by medical insurance reimbursement. 8.What patients are suitable for daytime chemotherapy? 1）Tumor patients in good physical condition; 2）Patients who need preoperative neoadjuvant chemotherapy or postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy, but do not want to be hospitalized. (3) Sensitization chemotherapy for outpatient radiotherapy patients. 9.Advantages of day chemotherapy for tumors 1）The department always insists on the principle of standardized, individualized and rationalized comprehensive treatment to ensure medical quality and medical safety; 2）Experienced senior attending physicians and oncology nurses are specifically responsible for the treatment of day chemotherapy patients throughout the whole process; the chief physician participates in the treatment decision at any time; 3）The treatment level and quality are the same as those of inpatients; 4）Simple and convenient appointment system. The “daytime chemotherapy” model not only eliminates the need for inpatient chemotherapy, thus saving patients’ medical costs, but also facilitates better and more comfortable rest for oncology patients at home every day.